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Thread ID: 40030	2003-11-25 22:59:00	Registry backups	Martina (4232)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
194651	2003-11-26 00:26:00	Aha, this is the new Microsoft emphasis on security and stability in the software. :D	Graham L (2)
194652	2003-11-26 00:43:00	Thats right Graham. When there was dos in Win98, the entire registry could be exported as a .reg file, and then re-imported to replace the registry from dos. Registry keys cant be replaced if they are open in windows by merging. Oxie, I havent got around to using the XP Backup, I just copy the entire drive to another one every week using Norton Ghost, with System Restore as required between times when having a play around.	Terry Porritt (14)
194653	2003-11-26 02:14:00	Maybe I don't tinker with stuff well enough or I've just done it properly, but I have NEVER backed up a registry or restored it.	-=JM=- (16)
194654	2003-11-26 03:47:00	Looks to me that the Registry FAQ might need a little updating. :-)	Susan B (19)
194655	2003-11-26 07:02:00	Hello Oxie - please bear with my newbie status. I think you are backing up the registry correctly using Backup but I thought I was doing it ok using Regedit . Someone with more knowledge had better advise you. Backup is not loaded on my 'puter tho' I understand it can be from the OS cd (XP Home). Maybe I should get round to finding instructions and having a go at loading it. I was trying to backup the registry using regedit after I read the instructions in a FAQ file and at attechnical.com I'm afraid it all made sense - seemed simple so I have been doing it till today. My very big mistake seems to have been not checking that it was applicable to XP. Ah well, a trap for us newbies which I will not forget easily.. Thanks all M...	Martina (4232)
194656	2003-11-26 07:10:00	The only problem with exporting the registry is that if you add a new key to it (eg: disable right click) and then realize 'Woops.. That feature sucks as I can't right click anymore' you go to import your registry and right click is still disabled. This is because the exported registry is been reimported over the keys it backed up - not the entire registry, so what happens is you have ~1000 keys which are overwritten and the 1 key which you want changed is left alone because it wasn't in the export. Simply speaking - you backup My documents and then add mynewdoc.rtf and do a few other things, you realize that you stuffed all your documents by doing something and you want to restore them, so you bring them back across and mynewdoc.rtf still exists even though it wasn't backed up as it wasn't included in the initial backup and therefore left alone.	cyberchuck (173)
194657	2003-11-26 07:39:00	Well, Martina, that article is quite wrong for both win 98 and XP, so you havent actually been saving your registry. If the exported .reg registry file is clicked on it will "merge", not replace the registry for both win 98 and XP. Now this is the interesting difference. In Win 95/98 the registry can be successfully exported to a text .reg file and then re-imported, overwriting the existing registry. In XP however the whole registry cannot be re-imported from a .reg file because some keys are open or in use. You can easily check this out by trying it, no harm will be done. The registry is just overwritten as far as it is able to be ( ie it is exactly the same if you dont change anything), and then an error message will come up about keys being open. So in summary, if you are going to alter a registry entry, export that entry as a hive file. Then if things go wrong you can import the original to overwrite the wrong entry. If an entry is to be added to, eg someone may say "this is a good mod, use this reg file then, import the reg file and additions will be made to what you already have. If you want to backup the entire registry, say before adding hardware, or before installing some program, then use System Restore.	Terry Porritt (14)
194658	2003-11-26 07:44:00	.......System Restore to create a restore point.	Terry Porritt (14)
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