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Oct 7th, 2008, 12:05pm
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Restoring Registry for Win98 using Regedit
« on: Dec 18th, 2007, 10:34pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Hi,
 
I regularly back up [via Regedit "export" utility] healthy copies of my Win98 Second Edition registry. I had assumed it was straightforward to import from this backup and supersede a corrupted or damaged registry.  
 
It turns out it's not so simple. Unless you use Microsoft's system backup utilities (which we don't and can't), a straightforward restore of backed-up registry via import is not available.  
 
Microsoft's built-in "Import" utility in Regedit adds to or modifies specific Registry entries which do not match in the 2 versions, but does not replace the new (corrupted) Registry *as a whole* with the old (undamaged) Registry. Therefore, unwanted objects will remain.
 
What should a user do to simply and safely accomplish this reversion to the undamaged Registry?  
 
Please detail.
 
Thaniks very much,  
 
A.H.  Smiley
 
 
 
 
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Re: Restoring Registry for Win98 using Regedit
« Reply #1 on: Dec 19th, 2007, 1:13am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
You might look into registry cleaning program Regvac which has a registry backup and restore option.  Be sure to check if it supports Win98.  A lot of programs are abandoning support of 95, 98, and ME as you probably know.  
 
http://www.regvac.com
 
I'd recommend having a conversation with the program developers at the Regvac site about the "do's/don'ts" prior to trying registry restore on your system...just to get a warm and fuzzy feeling about doing this.  Registry restoration is not something that should be a routine activity on your system.
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Re: Restoring Registry for Win98 using Regedit
« Reply #2 on: Jan 10th, 2008, 3:53am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
on Dec 19th, 2007, 1:13am, siliconman01 wrote:
You might look into registry cleaning program Regvac which has a registry backup and restore option.  Be sure to check if it supports Win98.  A lot of programs are abandoning support of 95, 98, and ME as you probably know.  
 
http://www.regvac.com
 
I'd recommend having a conversation with the program developers at the Regvac site about the "do's/don'ts" prior to trying registry restore on your system...just to get a warm and fuzzy feeling about doing this.  Registry restoration is not something that should be a routine activity on your system.  

 
 
Thanks for this information. I am using windows 98 in one of my older pc which is working so Im will try this one out. I am really looking for some software for this because I got problem installing XP in this pc.
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