transfer registry?

[Eddie G]

I installed a new hard drive and made the new drive my boot disk. I have a
registry backup and wanted to know if I could just transfer the registry to
the new drive with the "restore registry" and have all of my programs
working again instead of having to re-install them.

Thanks,

Eddie G

 

[Ron Martell]

I installed a new hard drive and made the new drive my boot disk. I have a
registry backup and wanted to know if I could just transfer the registry to
the new drive with the "restore registry" and have all of my programs
working again instead of having to re-install them.

Probably not. Almost all program installs add files to the
\Windows\System32 folder and/or other folders and these will not be
there under the scenario you are describing.

Good luck

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[Bruce Chambers]

I installed a new hard drive and made the new drive my boot disk. I have a
registry backup and wanted to know if I could just transfer the registry to
the new drive with the "restore registry" and have all of my programs
working again instead of having to re-install them.

Thanks,

Eddie G

Don't forget to also copy all of the files (probably dozens per
application) that those applications placed in the system folders on the
original hard drive.


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[Winux P]

Re-installations would be a more reliable, less time consuming option.
Restoring a previous registry would involve adjusting system and application
system files from now until Christmas, if it would work as before. Think of
all those dlls that get registered, then updated with later and bug fixed
versions, then re-registered, in the system and applications. Plus the many
more countless scenarios that may have occurred with your system and
registry that would not necessarily be the same if you, restored your
registry, and copies applications files to your new disk, or expanded them
from an install CD,....etc.

You would have to be a computer to keep track of it all....! Sorry 'bout
that.

_ Winux P

:I installed a new hard drive and made the new drive my boot disk. I have a
: registry backup and wanted to know if I could just transfer the registry
to
: the new drive with the "restore registry" and have all of my programs
: working again instead of having to re-install them.
:
: Thanks,
:
: Eddie G
:
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