Re: Disc Drive Wrong

"Sam-Tyson" <SamTyson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
I know reg cleaners are more bad than good and I cant use system restore, I
just need to know where in the registry the infomation that was lost actually
is stored so I can use an old registy to fix it.

And the reg cleaner doesn't have an undo function? Sorry I don't know the keys. Maybe someone else will jump in here. I am curious why is system restore not available.

I keep system restore running, though I have limited the amount of space allocated to it, SR is only good going back 1 or at most two weeks.

I also use ERUNT to make a daily backup of the registry. If set up properly a backup of the registry can be restored from the recovery console. It's worthwhile to have redundant/overlapping recovery mechanisms. As another protection I regularly image the drives using Acronis True Image Home version 10, saving the images on an external USB connected hard drive.

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

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

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