lost details

[-Phil Clemence]

I use WinXP pro SP2 and have lost many of the details options in "details
view".
I no longer have the options under "more" for dimensions, date taken, etc,
of pictures.
I no longer have artist album , year , etc for music files.
All that is available is Name, size, type, date modified, date created,
attributes and status.
I am not sure when this happened (recently, but I have been doing a lot of
work and changes.. new programs, cleaning up ,etc.., so it is "a while" as
far as changes go.)

I used a registry repair program and it found a lot of errors so I let it
fix them, but it did not correct that problem.
I searched in the KB some and found some interesting things, but not my
problem
Can anyone help me ?
Thanks
Phil C

 

[George Hester]

Probably not. The registry fixer probably did more damage then there was.
Very common with those types of applications. Don't use them. Ask here
first next time.

 

[-Phil C]

It will be interesting if I see the details magically reappear after
restoring the reg -
If that doesn't fix it, I won't tell me much , but it points me to before I
made the backups... I have been adding and removing progs and deleting old
files. Well, I don't mind having to reinstall a couple of programs and I
have a couple of different types of backups.
I will try it...
I was also curious about the registry key...
Is it exciting when you delete a value? ...I've always wanted to try that.
I just couldn't figure out which value to delete - there's a lot to choose
from.
....
and I think I saw another post about getting the settings to stick the
customization fer good.

Here is a description of one I used that claims to do it the right way.

====== Start =================

ERUNT - The Emergency Recovery Utility NT
=========================================

Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP

v1.1j, 10/20/2005, Freeware
Written by Lars Hederer
e-mail: (e-mail address removed)

Look for the latest version here:
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt

To find out what's new in this version, please see the "Version
history" section later in this file.

Introduction
------------
With the invention of Windows 95 Microsoft made the wise decision to
organize all computer- and application-specific data which was spread
over countless INI files before in a centralized Windows database,
called the system "registry". The registry is one of the most
important parts in every Windows system today, without which the OS
would not even boot. And since the registry is quite sensitive to
corruption, it is very advisable to backup its according files from
time to time.

In MS-DOS based Windows versions (95, 98, Me) the registry consists of
the files SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT (and CLASSES.DAT in Windows Me). To
backup these files, one can easily go to the Windows folder in
Explorer and copy the files to a safe location, for example another
folder on the hard disk. Microsoft even supplies a utility called ERU
which can be used to backup these and a few other critical system
files to a safe location.

Also, Windows 9x/Me automatically create backups of the registry at
startup, with Windows 95 always backing up the registry from the
previous Windows session, and Windows 98/Me maintaining up to five
registry copies from the last five days where Windows was running.

Unfortunately, this is not the case with Windows versions based on the
NT kernel. In Windows NT and 2000, the registry is never backed up
automatically, and in XP it is backed up only as part of the bloated
and resource hogging System Restore program which cannot even be used
for a "restore" should a corrupted registry prevent Windows from
booting. It has also become impossible to copy the necessary files,
now called "hives" and usually named DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE,
SYSTEM in the SYSTEM32\CONFIG folder, to another location because they
are all in use by the OS. And though the registry in an NT-based
Windows is less likely to become corrupted than in other versions, it
can still happen, and for these cases NT is simply missing an option
for easy registry backup and restore as there is in Windows 9x/Me, to
get the system up and running again in no time.

In 2001, as Windows XP began to come pre-installed on many new home
user PCs and was likely to become the new Windows standard over the
next years, I decided to write a program which offers the ease-of-use
of Windows 9x/Me ERU by Microsoft (hence the name ERUNT) to backup the
registry, as well as providing an auto-backup capability, for example
at Windows startup.

Or, before installing a new program for testing purposes one could
save the registry with ERUNT, install and test the program, uninstall
it and restore the registry to be 100% sure that no debris is left.

Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) for
making 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 without deleting anything that
has been added since the export, leaving you with an absolute mess of
old and new entries.

Features
--------

- Backup the Windows NT/2000/2003/XP registry to a folder of your
choice
- System and current user registries selectable
- Command line switches for automated registry backup and restoration
- Restore the registry in Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/2003/XP and MS-DOS
(all-in-one restore program) or the Windows Recovery Console
- Included in this package:
NTREGOPT program for optimizing the registry
- All programs in this package are completely localizable
(translate them into your language), German version included
Supported operating systems
---------------------------
- Windows NT 3.51
- Windows NT 4.0
- Windows 2000
- Windows 2003
- Windows XP
- most likely, all future Windows versions based on the NT kernel
Additionally supported by the ERDNT restore program:
- MS-DOS
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows Me

=== END ========
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- Phil C

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

This might help...it can't hurt

Start > Run > 'regsvr32 /i shell32.dll'

 

[George Hester]

There is a way to backup the registry that comes native in Windows XP.
Trouble is it doesn't work well. The application you mention I am not
familiar with and I really cannot give an honest opinion on it specifically.
But I would not use it. Here is an article on backup for Windows XP:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308422/

Here is informationm on the registry itself:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986

And more:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1100/Registry/default.aspx

There is a way of backing up the registry that is more manual but I can't
find the article on it now. But the real issue is restoring it since
Security in the Registry prohibits many keys and values from being restored
once deleted. That is why it is best to ask here first about what you plan
on doing. We can tell you whether that is advisable and whether or not your
expected outcome will happen.

 

[-Phil C]

My goodness Keith!
It worked !
I have all those interesting things back in details view!
Thanks very much.
Hey maybe you know what I did (or a program I ran did) to lose them
Unregistering a DLL sounds like just the sort of thing a registry repairing
program would do.
I swear I would never play with DLLs without adult supervision
-Phil C

This might help...it can't hurt

Start > Run > 'regsvr32 /i shell32.dll'


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

I use WinXP pro SP2 and have lost many of the details options in "details
view".
I no longer have the options under "more" for dimensions, date taken,
etc,
of pictures.
I no longer have artist album , year , etc for music files.
All that is available is Name, size, type, date modified, date created,
attributes and status.
I am not sure when this happened (recently, but I have been doing a lot
of
work and changes.. new programs, cleaning up ,etc.., so it is "a while"
as
far as changes go.)

I used a registry repair program and it found a lot of errors so I let it
fix them, but it did not correct that problem.
I searched in the KB some and found some interesting things, but not my
problem
Can anyone help me ?
Thanks
Phil C

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

Glad to hear it worked. It's a command line first brought to the attention of this group by David
Candy. It repairs a multitude of sins.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

My goodness Keith!
It worked !
I have all those interesting things back in details view!
Thanks very much.
Hey maybe you know what I did (or a program I ran did) to lose them
Unregistering a DLL sounds like just the sort of thing a registry repairing
program would do.
I swear I would never play with DLLs without adult supervision
-Phil C

This might help...it can't hurt

Start > Run > 'regsvr32 /i shell32.dll'


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

I use WinXP pro SP2 and have lost many of the details options in "details
view".
I no longer have the options under "more" for dimensions, date taken,
etc,
of pictures.
I no longer have artist album , year , etc for music files.
All that is available is Name, size, type, date modified, date created,
attributes and status.
I am not sure when this happened (recently, but I have been doing a lot
of
work and changes.. new programs, cleaning up ,etc.., so it is "a while"
as
far as changes go.)

I used a registry repair program and it found a lot of errors so I let it
fix them, but it did not correct that problem.
I searched in the KB some and found some interesting things, but not my
problem
Can anyone help me ?
Thanks
Phil C