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Re: XP and Vista: Backup or Restore the Registry

vicky — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:07:30 -0000

This is helpful for me. Its better
Vicky

Re: XP and Vista: Backup or Restore the Registry

sleepy77 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:15:35 -0000

I have a friend that has an old computer used at a business. He says I can have it but he thinks someone messed it up. He is not sure but thinks someone went and deleted a bunch or registry files. He says when its turned on nothing comes up. I'm wondering if I can use this registry restore method to get it working enough for my seven year old to play games. If anyone reads this and has an idea let me know. cjhill78@gmail.com

Re: XP and Vista: Backup or Restore the Registry

WinGeek — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 05:33:35 -0000

This method becomes useless after the death of Windows. E.g. "Cannot load, missing or corrupt system32configsystem " message at boot. Even if you have another operating system installed, you cannot reload your backup to the registry. If you have a second WinXp installation, you should try mounting the corrupt reg archive (system, software, etc.....) and import your backup there. But this is risky.
If you do not have SP2 installed (on XP), you should use ERUNT for XP and 2000. That's the best utility for that.

Note: Windows has a backup utility that can backup registry archive files.
These can be found in "WindowsSystem32config"