Re: Registry Import Problem

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Les Feinstein (les2046at_trip_dot_net_at_)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:46:47 -0700

Thanks, Jim.
I'll download these programs and give them a try.

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:15:35 -0800, "Jim Byrd"
<jrbyrd@spamlessadelphia.net> wrote:

>Hi Les - For future reference.
>
>Get Erunt here for all NT-based computers including XP:
>http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/ I've set it up to take a
>scheduled backup each night at 12:01AM on a weekly round-robin basis, and a
>Monthly on the 1st of each month. See here for how to set that up:
>http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt, and for some
>useful information about this subject
>
>This program is one of the best things around - saved my *** on many
>occasions, and will also run very nicely from a DOS prompt (in case you've
>done something that won't let you boot any more and need to revert to a
>previous Registry) IF you're FAT32 OR have a DOS startup disk with NTFS
>write drivers in an NTFS system. (There is also a way using the Recovery
>Console to get back to being "bootable" even without separate DOS write NTFS
>drivers, after which you can do a normal ERDNT restore. If you make your
>backup into a folder inside your Windows or Winnt folder, you can restore at
>a Recovery Console boot by copying the files from that ERDNT folder into the
>system32\config one. After a good boot, then do another normal ERDNT
>restore to also restore the user hives.) (BTW, it also includes a Registry
>defragger program). Free, and very, very highly recommended.
>
>FYI, quoting from the above document:
>
>Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to make a
>complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole registry
>(for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is saved), nor can the
>exported file be used later to replace the current registry with the old
>one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is merged with the current
>registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of old and new registry keys.

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