Microsoft Windows 2000 Prof.

[John]

HELP!

I need to restore my settings back to last friday's
settings because of software problems thanks to Symantics.
Saturday is when they were installed. Can anyone help.
I use to know how to do this on my 98 Windows. Thanks
for the help.

John

 

[Dave Patrick]

Not possible unless you made a registry backup at that time.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.


:
| HELP!
|
| I need to restore my settings back to last friday's
| settings because of software problems thanks to Symantics.
| Saturday is when they were installed. Can anyone help.
| I use to know how to do this on my 98 Windows. Thanks
| for the help.
|
| John

 

[Tony]

i remember on window 98 , window used to back up 4 or 5 copy of registry
each for that specific day .. and there was a dos command through you could
choose the date registry for the date you wanted and restor the file..
again. i only know that far. im sure , positive , that this feature was
avalible on older window.. now on window 2k , im not too sure.. but only
makes sence to have something like that somewhere stashed on this OS ..
Hope one of this guys would know what im talking about, and sorry if i was
not a great help to you.

 

[George Hester]

The reason this isn't possible in Windows 2000 is because this operating system came out before Microsoft developed the Restore functionality. The first operating system that had that was Windows ME and I believe they continue to this day with that functionality. In Windows 2000 we have what is called "return to a prior good configuration." Arrived at by hitting F12 before the Windows 2000 spash screen comes up. This is akin to what Windows 98 had where it saved registry settings from the last 5 successful boots. They are called rdb files something like that. When you had a bad boot in Windows 98 we'd get .BAD files. Not a pretty thing to see n Windows Explorer.

Anyway this is the crux of the issue. What may seem a successful boot to the machine may not be a successful boot to you. So if you rebooted your machine once in the time you have experienced this trouble and got to the desktop well then that is the last known good configuration. It doesn't work too well and so that is why the Restore functionality was developed. About a year after Windows 2000 first seen in Windows ME. That was a selling point at the time.

 

[Dave Patrick]

And to add to that;

Looking in;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Select
you'll find the D-Word values for
"Current"=dword:00000001
"Default"=dword:00000001
"Failed"=dword:00000000
"LastKnownGood"=dword:00000002

CurrentControlSet is volatile and will always be an image (at boot) of
what's defined in ControlSetx where x = the value of "Current"

Choosing last known good boots the system with the control set that last
successfully booted your system. Control sets contain system configuration
information such as device drivers and services. Nothing to do with the
software hive.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.


:
The reason this isn't possible in Windows 2000 is because this operating
system came out before Microsoft developed the Restore functionality. The
first operating system that had that was Windows ME and I believe they
continue to this day with that functionality. In Windows 2000 we have what
is called "return to a prior good configuration." Arrived at by hitting F12
before the Windows 2000 spash screen comes up. This is akin to what Windows
98 had where it saved registry settings from the last 5 successful boots.
They are called rdb files something like that. When you had a bad boot in
Windows 98 we'd get .BAD files. Not a pretty thing to see n Windows
Explorer.

Anyway this is the crux of the issue. What may seem a successful boot to
the machine may not be a successful boot to you. So if you rebooted your
machine once in the time you have experienced this trouble and got to the
desktop well then that is the last known good configuration. It doesn't
work too well and so that is why the Restore functionality was developed.
About a year after Windows 2000 first seen in Windows ME. That was a
selling point at the time.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Nope, doesn't happen.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.


:
| i remember on window 98 , window used to back up 4 or 5 copy of registry
| each for that specific day .. and there was a dos command through you
could
| choose the date registry for the date you wanted and restor the file..
| again. i only know that far. im sure , positive , that this feature was
| avalible on older window.. now on window 2k , im not too sure.. but only
| makes sence to have something like that somewhere stashed on this OS ..
| Hope one of this guys would know what im talking about, and sorry if i was
| not a great help to you.