Which registry is running?

[Terry Pinnell]

This is probably a dumb question, but how exactly can you determine
the date of the registry under which you are currently running?

While pursuing a troublesome crash issue, I've been using System
Restore and ERUNT/ERDNT to change my registry maybe half a dozen
times. Initially progressively earlier and earlier - up to a month
back - but then, when that failed to solve the problem, back to the
present again. And that was accompanied by various other attempts,
such as using CC Cleaner, Spybot, etc. So now I'm not sure what
version I am using!

 

[Guest]

As you create or alter each new Registry, you can back it up to a common
folder you create. Name the new folder Registry Backups.

Caution: Be careful within the Registry

Start > Run box > regedit > The Registry will open

Choose "File" in menu bar > Export (to backup your current registry)

Name the newly created backup registry file by date ie 2007-03-22 and some
name you might choose to remind you of the state of your system at that time.

Save the backed up registry to your newly created folder.

You are done.

If you choose you can burn your saved registry backups to independant media
or a second hard drive to further protect them.

You will now have a method of tracking the dates of each registry set you
have backed up in the event you wish to reinstall a given one.

To import a selected registry back to the current registry settings double
click the registry on the date of choice then or choose to Merge it back into
and as your current registry

Then reboot for settings to take place.

Have you considered free Registry cleaners. I use Abexo and Eusing available
at www.download.com. I also run them regularly.

Just use caution when dealing with the Registry or at least have a backup
available. As the Hypocratic? Oath states "First Do No Harm". This is a good
way to think about working with the registry.

Hoping this helps

 

[Terry Pinnell]

As you create or alter each new Registry, you can back it up to a common
folder you create. Name the new folder Registry Backups.

Caution: Be careful within the Registry

Start > Run box > regedit > The Registry will open

Choose "File" in menu bar > Export (to backup your current registry)

Name the newly created backup registry file by date ie 2007-03-22 and some
name you might choose to remind you of the state of your system at that time.

Save the backed up registry to your newly created folder.

You are done.

If you choose you can burn your saved registry backups to independant media
or a second hard drive to further protect them.

You will now have a method of tracking the dates of each registry set you
have backed up in the event you wish to reinstall a given one.

To import a selected registry back to the current registry settings double
click the registry on the date of choice then or choose to Merge it back into
and as your current registry

Then reboot for settings to take place.

Thanks, appreciate your reply. But I'm aware of the above, and
effectively use same principles when doing a nightly automatic backup
of my registry. I use ERUNT and restore with ERDNT, instead of
manually exporting with regedit. ERUNT saves to a folder named to my
choice (e.g.' Friday') and date/time stamped by Windows as usual. So I
can always restore a specific registry. And that's what I was doing.
But, as mentioned earlier, I was getting increasingly anxious to sort
a consistent crash that I stopped taking careful notes. My own fault
for being impatient! So when I posted it was because I no longer knew
for sure *which* registry I was using.

I had a neat idea last night from a reply elsewhere: save my current
registry (with ERUNT in my case) and then match its size against
earlier backups. Just tried that and was happy to find that I am using
a version only 1 day old. So the 'cure' of my crash - if indeed it is
fixed, as I believe - must have been one of the other things I tried.

 

[Zilbandy]

As you create or alter each new Registry, you can back it up to a common
folder you create. Name the new folder Registry Backups.

Caution: Be careful within the Registry

Start > Run box > regedit > The Registry will open

Choose "File" in menu bar > Export (to backup your current registry)

Name the newly created backup registry file by date ie 2007-03-22 and some
name you might choose to remind you of the state of your system at that time.

Save the backed up registry to your newly created folder.

You are done.

One flaw in that method from what I've read is that exporting the
registry doesn't really get all the info in the registry! Also, if you
import a saved registry, it will combine the imported registry with
the existing registry and really create a mess.

The original poster stated that he used ERUNT for registry backups.
This is a far better solution than using export, plus, I believe you
can restore ERUNT backups from the Recovery Console and not need
Windows running to do so.