On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 08:23:57 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:
In message , Bill in Co
writes:
Nil wrote:
On 03 Nov 2011, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
How do you restore an older version of the registry in Windows XP?
"System Restore."
Search Windows' help system for deatails.
Also consider ERUNT, a third party utility for registry backup/restore.
Google will help you find it.
To further explain:
Using ERUNT is closest to using "scanreg /restore" in Win9x, as it simply
restores the registry and its associated files.
System Restore does that and a bunch more, but often ERUNT is all you need.
In addition, SR only goes back a short time, ERUNT saves last until you
delete them.
In both cases if you screw up Windows to the extent that it won't start,
you'll need a way out of trouble: there is a way from SR I'm not that
familiar with, and for ERUNT you'll need to get to a point where you can
(get at and) run the executable it puts with the save: ERUNT's author
recommended BartPE when I asked him (if your disc is FAT rather than
NTFS a DOS boot floppy will do).
You just answered one of my questions. I was wondering what a person
would do who cant boot to Windows to run this ERUNT. Booting from dos
is simple (I always have a floppy drive available too). Of course if
the HD is formatted to NTFS, I guess I'd be screwed. This is one
reason I do not want a drive with NTFS. Unfortunately I'm stuck with
one with NTFS at the moment, but that will be changed when I can
figure out how without losing the installation of XP.
The thought I have, would be to put the NTFS drive as a secondary
(slave) drive on my Win2000 computer, boot to 2000, and run ERUNT.
Dont know if that would work or not, but I know Win2000 can read NTFS,
even though I have it on a Fat32 drive, and 2000 is pretty easy to
install and use. (I like it much better than XP, even though I still
like Win98 the most). It's getting to the point we all need at least
XP for a lot of stuff, even thought I keep trying to force Win2000 to
compensate.
That ERUNT sounds simple enough when you explain it, but when I tried
to read their online manual, it quickly started to sound like Greek
(or a damn linux manual).
Thanks