win2000 pro registry

[tigerjeaux]

according to a ms knowledge base article i must edit the registry in order to get a program to work on this machine. i have never worked in the registry before & wish to take necessary precautions on this pc for my volunteer job. what files do i save? where are they? how do i restore them?

[rebon]

My advise, if you are not sure when messing around in the reg,,,DONT DO IT,,coz you will end up in a mess.

If you insist use windows back up to copy your reg.

rob.

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[Vernon Frazee]

Source: MSDN > Windows 2000 Registry ... (http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1100/Registry/Registry.asp) In Windows 2000 there is no automatic backup feature. However, you can implement backups in another way. The registry backup is built into the Windows 2000 Backup utility, which you can find in Programs | Accessories | System Tools. From the main page of the Backup utility, click on the Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) button and make sure to check the proper option for backing up registry files, as shown in Figure 2.

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Figure 2 Registry Backup in Windows 2000

The procedure doesn't even attempt to copy the current registry to a floppy--an impossible operation since the average size of the registry on many machines is close to 20MB. Instead, the backup procedure makes a copy of the registry files in the system repair folder: c:\winnt\repair. All the information stored in this folder is necessary to repair a damaged Windows 2000 installation and shouldn't be deleted or modified. In particular, the latest registry backup is saved in the RegBack subfolder.

To restore correct registry information, you should run the Restore Wizard from the Backup utility and follow its instructions. Use the previously created ERD if you cannot start and log on to Windows. Through the Backup utility, you can also schedule the registry backup at predetermined intervals.Microsoft KB: Definition of the Microsoft Windows Registry (Q256986) (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q256986)