Registry Backup

[Stan]

Occasionally to resolve a problem I am told to back up the Registry first.
Is there a simple way to do this? I tried several times to go to Run

regedit >File >Export but when I tried to import the backup it always says

the Registry was not properly or fully saved so that's no good. Will
creating a Restore point in System Restore actually serve as a Registry
backup? Stan

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Mart=EDn_=5BMVP_Windows=5D?=]

Yes, a restore point serves as a Registry backup. Read this article by Ramesh Srinivasan MVP to discover other ways to backup the whole Windows Registry:

How to backup the Windows XP Registry?
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/registry.htm

 

[Stan]

Daniel, Thank You very much. I appreciate the quick response. Stan

Yes, a restore point serves as a Registry backup. Read this article by
Ramesh Srinivasan MVP to discover other ways to backup the whole Windows
Registry:

How to backup the Windows XP Registry?
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/registry.htm

 

[Rock]

Occasionally to resolve a problem I am told to back up the Registry first.
Is there a simple way to do this? I tried several times to go to Run
the Registry was not properly or fully saved so that's no good. Will
creating a Restore point in System Restore actually serve as a Registry
backup? Stan

An excellent tool for this is ERUNT.

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

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

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Get both of these...

NTREGOPT NT Registry Optimizer
ERUNT The Emergency Recovery Utility NT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

Direct download links (the zip files just need unzipping and dropping on the
drive. {Thank you, Jim}
http://aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip

http://aumha.org/downloads/ntregopt.zip

ERUNT [[Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to
make a complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole
registry (for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is
saved), nor can the exported file be used later to replace the current
registry with the old one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is
merged with the current registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of
old and new registry keys.]]
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt

NTREGOPT [[Similar to Windows 9x/Me, the registry files in an NT-based
system can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your hard
disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance. You should
use the NTREGOPT utility regularly, but especially after installing
or uninstalling a program, to minimize the size of the registry files
and optimize registry access.

The program works by recreating each registry hive "from scratch",
thus removing any slack space that may be left from previously
modified or deleted keys.

Note that the program does NOT change the contents of the registry in
any way, nor does it physically defrag the registry files on the drive
(as the PageDefrag program from SysInternals does). The optimization
done by NTREGOPT is simply compacting the registry hives to the
minimum size possible.]]
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/ntregopt.txt

Installing & Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html

To see an illustrated registry restore procedure
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_erdntuse.html

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Stan]

Thank you all. Stan

Get both of these...

NTREGOPT NT Registry Optimizer
ERUNT The Emergency Recovery Utility NT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

Direct download links (the zip files just need unzipping and dropping on
the
drive. {Thank you, Jim}
http://aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip

http://aumha.org/downloads/ntregopt.zip

ERUNT [[Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to
make a complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole
registry (for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is
saved), nor can the exported file be used later to replace the current
registry with the old one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is
merged with the current registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of
old and new registry keys.]]
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt

NTREGOPT [[Similar to Windows 9x/Me, the registry files in an NT-based
system can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your hard
disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance. You should
use the NTREGOPT utility regularly, but especially after installing
or uninstalling a program, to minimize the size of the registry files
and optimize registry access.

The program works by recreating each registry hive "from scratch",
thus removing any slack space that may be left from previously
modified or deleted keys.

Note that the program does NOT change the contents of the registry in
any way, nor does it physically defrag the registry files on the drive
(as the PageDefrag program from SysInternals does). The optimization
done by NTREGOPT is simply compacting the registry hives to the
minimum size possible.]]
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/ntregopt.txt

Installing & Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html

To see an illustrated registry restore procedure
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_erdntuse.html

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Daniel, Thank You very much. I appreciate the quick response. Stan

Yes, a restore point serves as a Registry backup. Read this article by
Ramesh Srinivasan MVP to discover other ways to backup the whole Windows
Registry:

How to backup the Windows XP Registry?
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/registry.htm

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Mart=EDn_=5BMVP_Windows=5D?=]

You're welcome, Stan.

 

[deango]

Hi Stan. These free utilities will backup your registry with one click
(ERUNT) and the NTREGOPT will optimize the registry anytime. I usually
do it after I have defragmented and run CHKDSK. Good
luck............deango

 

[Stan]

Thank You. Other folks have suggested the same. Appreciate your input. Stan

 

[Plato]

Occasionally to resolve a problem I am told to back up the Registry first.
Is there a simple way to do this? I tried several times to go to Run

Yes. Creating a restore point is actually creating a registry backup.