Registry; double entries?

[PopS]

Hi,

I learned the hard way back in the days of win98 that if you
Exported, and then IMported, the REgistry, what you ended up with
was a slew of repeated entries; nothing was overwritten nor
replaced, even with identical entries.

Some empirical testing with XP SP2+... shows that to still be the
case.

Am I right?

IFF I'm right, what good does the advice to "back up the
Registry" do?
You're going to end up with a mess if you re-import your
Registry.
Reason I ask is because I have a friend's very slow machine
sitting here with a Registry full of three lines each for each
entry. Yes, he tried to Import his registry instead of using a
last known good.

I'm also looking for an easy way to rebuild the registry, but
that's not my main interest in this particular post <g>.

TIA,

Pop

 

[Ted Zieglar]

I learned the hard way, too. Boy did I.

The same is true of the registry in XP. Exporting and importing is not the
way to backup the registry, however. To backup the registry using XP, create
a restore point. Or use one of the countless utilities on the internet that
backup the registry. One such utility often mentioned here is ERUNT, which
you can get here:
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

 

[PopS]

Thanks, that's what I thought. Personally I use Restore Points
and the System State to back it up, which is better, but harder
to explain to someone else who's sitting there reading the screen
about how she should back up the registry in case he ever needs
to recover it. Not those words, but you know what I mean.

She thinks I'm a guru (I'm not!) so I can handle it, but I wanted
to be sure I was telling the truth <g>.

Thanks again.
Pop

I learned the hard way, too. Boy did I.

The same is true of the registry in XP. Exporting and importing
is not the
way to backup the registry, however. To backup the registry
using XP, create
a restore point. Or use one of the countless utilities on the
internet that
backup the registry. One such utility often mentioned here is
ERUNT, which
you can get here:
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/