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change startup items without OS access
accidentally installed Daemon Tools with SPTD emulation enabled on Win7 running under VirtualBox. RDP and Virtualbox are so seamless that I guess I thought I was on a regular desktop without builtin image mounting support.
Can't boot into Windows (well, I get to the desktop and it restarts). Safemode does same thing.
I mounted the .vdi image on another VM and deleted the Daemon Tools folder, which solved the problem, but that only worked because I knew which files were the problem.
For future reference/my own curiosity:
Is there any way to modify the startup items by editing files? I have total access to the system files, just like if I were booting via LiveCD. Is it possible to edit the registry? Editing the registry from outside of Windows would be really useful imo.