Restoring registry

[DR]

In scanreg, if all your backups predate the problem can you restore the registry from the installation files?

[Hackmaster]

Restart in MS-DOS mode, type in scanreg /restore and pick the newest backup before your problem occured.

[DR]

Yes. But what if the last backup is newer than the problem? The senerio would be a minor OS problem that needs fixed while you are servicing it. They have been tolorating it till they could get it to the shop or tech support has time to fix it. Since default only saves the last 5 starts/days it's possible the backups will not be old enough to fix it. What options would you have to restore the OS to "like new" condition?
An example would be a post in this forum where they lost the ability to right click the start button and have explore as an option. It appears that the registry needs to be restored to before the problem occurred. If it has been used this way for a while then the problem could predate the backups.

[Apache]

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[AlienDyne]

A Windows reinstallation would help. Just select the same directory (e.g. c:\Windows) to install it over itself.

Of course, you can manually delete the original registry files (C:\Windows\user.dat and C:\Windows\system.dat) and find the older ones (provided that those files were stored before the problem started) and rename their extensions to .dat.
In order to do this you need to boot into DOS and use the Attrib command first.
Attrib (filename.extension) -r -s -h, removes read-only, system and hidden attributes.
If that wouldn't help, just install Windows over.

Good luck.


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[pga]

Originally posted by AlienDyne:

you can manually delete the original registry files (C:\Windows\user.dat and C:\Windows\system.dat) and find the older ones (provided that those files were stored before the problem started) and rename their extensions to .dat.
In order to do this you need to boot into DOS and use the Attrib command first.
Attrib (filename.extension) -r -s -h, removes read-only, system and hidden attributes.
If that wouldn't help, just install Windows over.

i agree with AlienDyne