there is a windows registry editor that is native to linux but it is so cryptic that i don't even bother...

the question then becomes if you can rescue the client data from the machine with in a few minutes...why not just reimage the hard drive with ghost and restore the client data...?

in most cases it is a faster solution than going through the registry and deleting spyware and worrying about virus'...

thats why its called a rescue instead of a repair

but you just gave me another good idea! i'll leave the knoppix install to hd script intact JUST in case we get some believers