Ever need information from a user registry hive but could not successfully boot up the computer? Here is a quick tip that you may not know about. You can mount a single users registry hive (commonly seen as HKEY_CURRENT_USER when they're logged in and you launch regedit) outside of that users profile.
A few things you will need before you can mount the hive:
-Access to the NTUSER.dat file in question
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