Registry editor from recovery console

[Patches Forever]

I am way out of date with contemporary Regedit tricks. In the days of
Win98SE you could boot into MS-DOS and import a registry key. You could run
Regedit from AUTOEXEC.BAT.

OK. In WinXP we can try to fix things with the recovery console. But you
can't run Regedit there.

I want to delete some registry values and see if they get recreated, and
what the new values are. But in XP I can't run Regedit unless Windows is up
and running. Can't do it from recovery console. So if I break Windows real
bad I might not be able to undoo the damage.

What do we do now - in the age of Windows XP? I discovered the screen that
gives the option to BOOT LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION. So, should I make
a restore point just before tinkering with the registry. Would that be the
LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION ? Is that how you do it ?

TIA Bill S.

 

[Pennywise]

I am way out of date with contemporary Regedit tricks. In the days of
Win98SE you could boot into MS-DOS and import a registry key. You could run
Regedit from AUTOEXEC.BAT.

OK. In WinXP we can try to fix things with the recovery console. But you
can't run Regedit there.

I want to delete some registry values and see if they get recreated, and
what the new values are. But in XP I can't run Regedit unless Windows is up
and running. Can't do it from recovery console. So if I break Windows real
bad I might not be able to undoo the damage.

What do we do now - in the age of Windows XP? I discovered the screen that
gives the option to BOOT LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION. So, should I make
a restore point just before tinkering with the registry. Would that be the
LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION ? Is that how you do it ?

You should run ERUNT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

Before tinkering with anything, a restore point wouldn't hurt, but you
have to have access to the OS to run Restore, ERUNT you can access
outside of the OS.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

[ERUNT] Registry Backup and Restore for Windows
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

[ERUNT Download URLs]
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt-setup.exe

[Installing & Using ERUNT]
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

How to edit the registry offline using BartPE boot CD ?:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/peboot.htm

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I am way out of date with contemporary Regedit tricks. In the days of
Win98SE you could boot into MS-DOS and import a registry key. You could run
Regedit from AUTOEXEC.BAT.

OK. In WinXP we can try to fix things with the recovery console. But you
can't run Regedit there.

I want to delete some registry values and see if they get recreated, and
what the new values are. But in XP I can't run Regedit unless Windows is up
and running. Can't do it from recovery console. So if I break Windows real
bad I might not be able to undoo the damage.

What do we do now - in the age of Windows XP? I discovered the screen that
gives the option to BOOT LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION. So, should I make
a restore point just before tinkering with the registry. Would that be the
LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION ? Is that how you do it ?

TIA Bill S.