Restoring Registry in WinXP from command prompt

[James B. Holladay]

In windows 98 you could Start Computer in command prompt mode and type in the following "scanreg /restore" then hit enter to select a restore date.
How do you do this in WindowsXP?
I know about Run\SFC /Scannow.
I am looking for a way to do it from dos prompt when you are dealing with the blue screen of death and your computer won't boot beyond the point that says Conf file or some other file missing or corrupted start computer in recovery mode.
Recovery mode is neat but you better still know a few dos prompts even xp is not suppose to understand dos.
By now someone has had to have found a method similar to the "Start Computer in command prompt mode and type in the following "scanreg /restore" then hit enter to select a restore date." method used in win98.

 

[JS]

How to restore the operating system to a previous state in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084/en-us

How to back up and restore the registry in Windows XP and Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756

JS
In windows 98 you could Start Computer in command prompt mode and type in the following "scanreg /restore" then hit enter to select a restore date.
How do you do this in WindowsXP?
I know about Run\SFC /Scannow.
I am looking for a way to do it from dos prompt when you are dealing with the blue screen of death and your computer won't boot beyond the point that says Conf file or some other file missing or corrupted start computer in recovery mode.
Recovery mode is neat but you better still know a few dos prompts even xp is not suppose to understand dos.
By now someone has had to have found a method similar to the "Start Computer in command prompt mode and type in the following "scanreg /restore" then hit enter to select a restore date." method used in win98.

 

[Guest]

Won't work for everything, but you can put this file in your Path and run as
you said:
http://www.rhebus.com/download/rereg.bat
Info, from #9, this page:
http://www.rhebus.com/index.htm#tt9

 

[James B. Holladay]

Thanks for all input.
Wish I had it last week before I did it the hard way.
In windows 98 you could Start Computer in command prompt mode and type in the following "scanreg /restore" then hit enter to select a restore date.
How do you do this in WindowsXP?
I know about Run\SFC /Scannow.
I am looking for a way to do it from dos prompt when you are dealing with the blue screen of death and your computer won't boot beyond the point that says Conf file or some other file missing or corrupted start computer in recovery mode.
Recovery mode is neat but you better still know a few dos prompts even xp is not suppose to understand dos.
By now someone has had to have found a method similar to the "Start Computer in command prompt mode and type in the following "scanreg /restore" then hit enter to select a restore date." method used in win98.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi James,

Scanreg is not available in Windows XP. System Restore should be the first
choice.

Here is a description of System Restore:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/description.html

How to use System Restore in WinXP:
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html

ERUNT is an excellent tool or backing up and restoring ONLY the registry.
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt

Or the registry can be restored manually.
How to back up and restore the registry in Windows XP and Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org