Regedit crashes the system

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Guest

On a WinXP Home, I invoke regedit, click on "My Computer", then File->Export,
I set the file name (in .reg format) and start the writing of the file. After
some time, the system crashes without creating the output file. Can anyone
suggest which pest invaded my system? I'd like to be able to backup the
registry before I start tinkering with it to remove further pests.
 
D

David H. Lipman

From: "Herzl Regev" <[email protected]>

| On a WinXP Home, I invoke regedit, click on "My Computer", then File->Export,
| I set the file name (in .reg format) and start the writing of the file. After
| some time, the system crashes without creating the output file. Can anyone
| suggest which pest invaded my system? I'd like to be able to backup the
| registry before I start tinkering with it to remove further pests.

Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *
 
R

Rock

Herzl said:
On a WinXP Home, I invoke regedit, click on "My Computer", then File->Export,
I set the file name (in .reg format) and start the writing of the file. After
some time, the system crashes without creating the output file. Can anyone
suggest which pest invaded my system? I'd like to be able to backup the
registry before I start tinkering with it to remove further pests.

A better tool for registry backups is ERUNT.

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

Installing & Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm
 
G

Guest

I set the file name (in .reg format) and start the writing of the file?
huh?
should set it as reg file by default and it is merely a copy and paste type
situation. you don't write or create it!
 

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