Re: Restoring the registry

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I've had to read through this several times to try and understand .. you are
always so thorough... and it's appreciated, but I think sometimes this is
just over my head.. I do try though.. :) I ended up chosing to restore a
backed up registry.. and did notice that some of the programs were no long
there, they were listed like they should be.. but I had to reinstall
them...so you are right on! The reason I did this was because I managed to
get a trojan from a holiday screensaver that messed up a few things.. My
computer is ok now.. but it was a mess.

Off Thread... you remember my hard drive that disappeared, well it's still
hanging in there.. that had to be 5 weeks ago.. and I am no longer getting
drive failure prompts on boot... so I don't know why it disappeared. but I
don't think it was crashing.. I am getting a healthy readout from every
program that can check my drive.. so I'm just very thankful that it is still
working ok... strange to say the least.. thanks Sharon.. Rainy


"Sharon F" <sharonfDEL@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:25:47 GMT, Rainy wrote:
>
>> What exactly happens when you chose to restore the registry.. do you lose
>> recently installed software? as if you used system restore? Any input
>> appreciated.. thanks Rainy
>
> The registry is made of "hives." Several system hives, an all user hive,
> and individual user hives.
>
> System Restore monitors changes to the portions of the registry that apply
> to the system. If trying to revert from a bad software install, articles
> about System Restore recommend uninstalling the program if at all possible
> before rolling back to a previous restore point.
>
> Programs that restore previous registry files are usually more broad in
> scope. They create backup sets of all portions of the registry. There's a
> "gotcha" in many of these programs. Usually only the current user's
> registry hive is backed up. Hives for other users are not always sought
> out.
>
> Also.. the current user's portion of the registry is a dynamic set of
> files: loaded hives (.dat files) and active change logs. Since the
> individual user hive is in use when you create restore sets, hives and
> change logs may not be recorded in their entirety. Being "in use" can also
> make the restoration process incomplete.
>
> Back to your question about what would happen in regards to a program's
> installation: The program's folders and files would still be on the hard
> drive. However registry info about the program would no longer exist. If
> the program relies on registry entries to work correctly, then the program
> would need to be reinstalled before that can happen. This would happen
> with
> System Restore or a registry backup/restore program.
>
> Basically the difference between using system restore and a program that
> can create/restore backup sets of the registry will be in the user parts
> of
> the registry. System Restore does not monitor them. The registry backup
> program would restore whatever portions of user hives it was able to
> capture.
>
> --
> Sharon F
> MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User


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