Saving XP Pro Registry

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Rich Knowles

As a safety precaution I want to export all of my registry entries;
however, I get an error when I try to do from within Windows XP Pro --
something about files in use.

I tried booting to "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" and ran a DOS batch
file that contained the command --
C:\windows\regedit.exe /e "c:\savedregistry.reg"

The "savedregistry.reg" output file was created but I am not sure if
it is the whole registry. The reason I think that it may not be the
whole registry is because when I "looked" at the file via
"Notepad.exe" I could not find all the major key headings (like
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT).

How can I export the whole registry and verify that it is the whole
registry and usable should it be needed to re-import?

Thanks.

--Rich Knowles.
 
Never Mind, I didn't read far enough and can see it applies to and works for XP too.

Thanks, this will be a great tool.

--Rich K.
 
Rich said:
As a safety precaution I want to export all of my registry entries;
however, I get an error when I try to do from within Windows XP Pro --
something about files in use.

I tried booting to "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" and ran a DOS batch
file that contained the command --
C:\windows\regedit.exe /e "c:\savedregistry.reg"
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That is not the way to back up a registry; for one thing there is no way
to recreate a registry from scratch from the result, only to merge in,
leaving items that were added later and which ought to be deleted.

The registry gets backed up daily as part of the system restore point,
and use of System restore is the proper way to restore one. As an
additional backup I suggest the free ERUNT
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt

Use that to back up, putting its folder *inside* C:\Windows. Then in an
extreme case you can copy the files from it back into
Windows\system32\config from a recovery console boot
 
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