How to Backup your Windows Registry

[Hitterman]

Sometimes it happens that you alter a Registry which may cause error on your PC. The best way to Prevent errors is to make a Backup of your Registry so that you can restore when any error occurs after the tweaking.

To do this:

Go to Start and then click "Run".

Type "regedit", and then click OK.

Select "My Computer" the master branch.

On the File menu, click Export.

Type a name for your registry and Save it.

To restore the registry just Double click the saved .reg file and then click OK.

Cheers!:cheers

[DisneyTech]

Everybody should do this before installing major software, or any kind of software for that matter. You never know what will happen.

[Oj_RuLeS]

Any idea about how to backup full Windows ? Whenever there is a power cut here my PC crashes most of the times I have to format it and re-install windows :(

[DisneyTech]

Any idea about how to backup full Windows ? Whenever there is a power cut here my PC crashes most of the times I have to format it and re-install windows :(

There in fact, is a built-in utility to use for completely backing up Windows. You have to have Windows XP Professional minimum to do this. It can also be found on Media Center Edition of XP.

Point to Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Backup

[sachinrulez]

Any idea about how to backup full Windows ? Whenever there is a power cut here my PC crashes most of the times I have to format it and re-install windows :(
Nexttime you reinstall xp,try to take a screenshot of your C drive and record the image in a CD/DVD.when your computer isnt working justusse that CD/DVD.
this method was actually said by shkhanal few weeks ago.i found this really useful.

[Hitterman]

There in fact, is a built-in utility to use for completely backing up Windows. You have to have Windows XP Professional minimum to do this. It can also be found on Media Center Edition of XP.

Point to Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Backup
This method is most successfull. Though there are many softwares which can recover the lost data but not 100% guaranteed.

Some data is recovered as broken.