Export/import XP Registry

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Sal Sorrentino

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?

Sal
 
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?

Sal
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Open the Registry and select Import, rather than Export. Then select the
Registry version you desire.

This is not a perfect solution (System Restore is better, IMHO) because
an import of the Registry doesn't overwrite keys or remove keys that
have been added since the Export was done.

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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?
Click to expand...

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)
 
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