REGPATCH(1)

✨ regpatch ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because we're about to talk about regpatch — a System Administration tool and honestly? a lil icon. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

regpatch — applies registry patches to registry files 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

regpatch [--help] [--backend=BACKEND] [--credentials=CREDENTIALS]
         [location] [patch-file]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, the regpatch utility applies registry patches to Windows registry files. no cap. that's the whole job and it does it gorgeously. 🫶

and here's the tea: your patch files should have the same format as the one being used by the regdiff utility and by regedit32.exe from Windows. matching energy fr fr. ✨

and if you don't hand it a patch file on the command line? it's not gonna be dramatic about it — regpatch attempts to read it from standard input. lowkey flexible of it. 😌

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --help — shows you the list of available options. it's giving helpful. 💅
• --backend BACKEND — the name of the backend to load. possible values are: creg, regf, dir and rpc. the default is dir. pick your fighter bestie 🥊
• --credentials=CREDENTIALS — credentials to use, if any. password should be separated from user name by a percent sign. yes, a percent sign. %. that's the divider. iconic behaviour honestly. 💜

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

this man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite. periodt. 🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

regdiff, regtree, regshell, gregedit, samba, diff, patch

the whole friend group right there. go say hi. 👑

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

this utility is part of the Samba[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team[2]. huge.

this manpage and regpatch were written by Jelmer Vernooij. 🫶

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🧚 NOTES 🧚

1. Samba — http://www.samba.org/
2. Samba Team — http://www.samba.org/samba/team/

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bestie reminder: those two links up there are exactly where you go for the lore. don't lose them. 🍓

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and that's the whole page!! written for Samba 4.0, dated 09/09/2026, and it's the REGPATCH(1) manual. slay, go patch something, mwah 💖✨🌸