Following the advice that I have read here so many times I backup up my registry to My Desktop this AM before making some changes. Called the backup registry.reg. I guess windows didn't like the changes as it pulled that annoying Registry Checker thing and restored me back to November which might as well have been the stone age. Ran scanreg /restore and only had some even older ones to choose from.

No problem, I have a backup. Well, booted to command prompt only and changed directories and heres what I got.

C:\>Windows\Desktop\registry.reg
Bad command or file name

What am I missing here?