Sal said:
Anytime I have gone into the REGISTRY I have always made
sure to eport it to a dated file. I thought this would
protect me if I had a problem.
No I wonder if I am protected since I don't know how to
reinstate the exported file. How do I IMPORT and EXPORTED
registry?
Export and import is not a good way of backing up the registry - for one
thing the files are extremely big, for another the import will only
merge things back, so it will *not* delete things that have been added,
and that is very often what you want to do. Its value is where you are
going to modify a small section - export that section, then if needed
delete it and reimport to put things back
The registry is included in the restore points made daily by System
Restore, and that is the usual way to go back. You can do that at a
Safe mode boot if needed.
A simple, general backup tool is ERUNT from
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt
If you put the backup folder it makes *inside* the windows folder, then
you can copy the files back from a Recovery prompt on booting the XP CD
(copy into Windows\system32\config)