Re: Registry Storgage location

"Dave" <djbahb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

I'm curious as to where the Registry file (folder?) is stored in XP. Specifically, when I do a simple backup using the NT Backup utility, am I backing up the registry as well?

If you backup the system state, then yes the registry is backed up. To restore it, restore the system state. I prefer to use a different utility to make a daily backup of the registry that can be restored through the recovery console. I use ERUNT. Here are some links for it.

ERUNT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

Installing and Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm

The registry is stored in several files in different folders.

Most of them are in the %systemroot%\System32\Config folder [normally C:\windows\system32\config]:
Default
Sam
Security
Software
System

And the user portion are kept in Ntuser.dat and Ntuser.dat.log files in the root directory.

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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

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