Restore windows 2000 registry

Recently, a TechProGuild member asked me to explain how to back up and restore the registry. He was confused by the various techniques. You can view the contents of the registry by using the program Regedit. To open this program, choose Start Run, type Regedit , and press [Enter]. When viewing or working with the registry, be extremely careful. Changing registry settings can be disastrous to your system. Information here includes screen savers, desktop icons, colors, and other user-specific information.

The Device Manager uses this information. Some of these root keys are actually parts of other root keys. The Windows NT and Windows registries are very similar. Where are the registry files? These files contain registry information. On my fairly recently installed Windows Pro system, they comprise over 8. Registry backup and restore in Windows 98 To back up the registry in Windows 98, you run the Registry Checker, scanregw.

Microsoft recommends that before you edit the registry, you back up the registry and understand how to restore it if a problem occurs. If a problem occurs, you can then follow the steps in the How to Restore the Registry section of this article to restore the registry to its previous state. If you must back up whole registry hives, back up the whole registry instead.

Click Start , and then click Run. In the Open box, type regedt32 , and then click OK. Locate and then click the key that contains the values that you want to edit. On the Registry menu, click Save Key. You will most likely have to reinstall Windows to get things working properly again. This process requires you to enter your BIOS again and change the boot sequence to boot from your hard drive again.

If you reach the Safe Mode login screen, proceed with this step. If you encounter errors at this point, your problem may not be restricted to the registry. It is possible that other important system files have been affected or hardware may be at fault.

You may get a message box requesting you to choose between entering Safe Mode or to use System Restore to restore to a previous state — you want to enter Safe Mode. This contains the System Restore Points, which in turn contain backups of the registry hive. These are Restore Points. Go for the second oldest one — write down the date and then open it.

You need to select and copy do not cut! Click on each one individually and then press F2 to rename them. Now you need to delete the currently used registry hive files by typing these lines one by one: del system del software del sam del security del default 3. Now you need to copy the Restore Point files so that Windows can load from them. Boot into Windows normally. It should work properly. As a further measure in case there are hidden glitches created as a result of manual restoration, you can open System Restore in the Start Menu and roll back to the second last Restore Point prior to the time you encountered this problem.

XP setup disks. There are two ways of going about this. I found the instructions on this guide, but typing out all those commands was tedious. EXE and ChkReg. EXE to c:a4. Unzip the contents of the following ZIP files to c:abbie