Need to back up your registry?

Posted under Registry Cleaner by Barber Paul

Backing up your registry regularly is a good practice and you can completely revive your registry to a previously saved state before installing the program making any changes in your PC settings, or running a registry cleaner, among other stuff. This ensures you are prepared in case something goes belly up, and you thankfully won’t have to reinstall your whole system due to a registry failure.

If you’re employing a registry cleaner to clean up your registry, many of them incorporate a back up function. One click and you’ve got a back up that can be restored just as easily. For the sake of safety though, you’d still need to know how to do a manual back up in case your registry cleaner doesn’t have the function. So how do I back up a registry? There are three ways to do this.

System Reinstall

This is probably the simplest way to do this. Making a System Restore point gives you a snapshot of your registry, your computer settings, and other information so you don’t lose any of them. In case something goes badly wrong, you can just revert back to a revive point to undo any changes you may have done since that point. If you are using Windows XP, this is the main method to do it.

First you have to click Start, click Run, type in %SystemRoot%system32 estore strui.exe, and click OK. This opens up the user interface for installing a System Reinstall point. If you have System Revive turned off, just open the System Properties and un-tic the Turn off System Revive box.

Once you have a revive point, you can safely use a registry cleaner. You can undo blunders that happen while cleaning, defragging or making changes to your registry by reverting back to the aforementioned revive point.

RegEdit

If you’re using Windows Vista or 7, you can open the Registry Editor by clicking Start, clicking Run, and typing regedit. With the Registry Editor, you can export a specific part or parts of your registry into text files. Just choose the registry key or subkey you want to back up, click the File menu, click Export, and save the backup copy.

precise part or parts of your registry into text files. Just select the registry key or subkey you would like to back up, hit the File menu, click Export, and save the backup copy.

To learn more about backing up your Microsoft Windows Registry and employing a registry cleaner, just follow the link. We’ve all the info you need.

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