Thursday, December 7, 2006

Backup and restore Windows XP registry.

We can make our Windows XP different and more fun, one way to make that happen is change the registry value, but don’t forget changing registry value can be very dangerous. It can make your system crash if you don’t know what are you doing. Here I want to share how to backup registry and then how to restore registry to undo registry value changes that you made if something goes wrong.

To backup:

  1. Click Start > Run and type “regedit”, click Ok button. This will popup Registry Editor window.
  2. Click File > Export, choose a location to save registry file and type in File name. Don't forget to choose All (for all value registry) or Selected branch(for your own selected registry value) in Export Range section. Click Save button.

To restore:

  1. Click Start > Run and type “regedit”, click Ok button. This will popup Registry Editor window.
  2. Click File > Import, choose a location where you saved your registry file and choose a registry file. Click Open button.

Enjoy ..........

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