Registry protection win2000.

[why]

Hi,

I have win 2000 installed .

I want to protect my registry from
any unwanted change made by worm,virus etc .

Is there any good software for that purpose ?

Please help me .

Thank You .

 

[George Hester]

Not all "things" which can effect the registry adversely are viruses, worms, etc. Some things are bona-fide applications which have poor uninstallers; conflict with existing programs, even critical updates you receive from Microsoft. When the system is running well you can take snapshots of the registry and reapply portions of the registry if you can identify where the issue occurs. Here is an example:

Many graphics programs upon installing can change portions of the registry so that certain file types are associated to that program. On the surface that seems like a good thing. But what happens if yuou uninstall the program? Do you think the uninstall will re-associte those file types back to what you had before the installation? No not usually. Or what happens when you notice your image preview no longer works in Windows Explorer.

These occur because of registry changes and no software that I know of is going to stop you from installing these types of file extension hijackers. They are legitimate applications which can mess up your registry. Microsoft Office does this. It hijacks your association for TIF files. So if you had saved the HKCR\.tif and HKCR\tiff keys in the Registry BEFORE you installed Office you could easily return to the application that should be used for TIF files namely the Kodak Imaging application. If you didn't do that the process of getting back to the correct file association for TIF files is made harder. Install Photo Editor from Microsoft Office XP and before and you'll have to scout the Knowledge Base to get back to normal.