How to make a back up of Registry in Windows.
Before we begin to alter the registry, we must be aware of the catastrophe that will follow any accident, unknown or wrong modifications we do in the registry. The result can be as serious as re-installing ur Operating System!!!
So, a smart person will always back-up one's registry contents before trying hands in it. U dunno how to back-up your registry??? Don't worry.. following is a tutorial for that:
Step 1: Open Registry Editor:
Open the Run window by pressing Win key+R (or Click Start>> then click on Run icon).
Step 2: Then type regedit or regedt32 in Run window and hit Enter key.
U may see window with two columns titled Registry Editor. For people who haven't seen this before, this is the Registry Editor - a tool used to edit the contents of your Windows registry.
Aw, now lets move into the real purpose of the post!!
Making a backup of one's registry:
This is one of the methods of backing up a Windows registry.
Note: Before proceeding to save the registry, verify that the selected entry in the Registry Editor is My Computer (as shown in the fig.), else if u select some other entry in the registry, only that value will be saved and not the whole registry!! So, be careful while exporting the values.
Step 1: While in the Registry Editor(with My computer selected), Click File>>Export...
Step 2: Select the location where u want to save the registry back up.
Step 3: Give a file name and make sure the file type is Registration Files (*.reg).
Step 4: Click Save.
It will take sometime to save all the entries if it is huge, so wait until it finishes saving.
That's it. You successfully made a back up of your registry!
If you have encountered any problem in the process, do post your problems. I will try to solve the problem.
Hope u find this post useful..it should be useful, as we'll be taking back ups of registry many times in future for several hacks. ;)
So, a smart person will always back-up one's registry contents before trying hands in it. U dunno how to back-up your registry??? Don't worry.. following is a tutorial for that:
Step 1: Open Registry Editor:
Open the Run window by pressing Win key+R (or Click Start>> then click on Run icon).
Step 2: Then type regedit or regedt32 in Run window and hit Enter key.
U may see window with two columns titled Registry Editor. For people who haven't seen this before, this is the Registry Editor - a tool used to edit the contents of your Windows registry.
Aw, now lets move into the real purpose of the post!!
Making a backup of one's registry:
This is one of the methods of backing up a Windows registry.
Note: Before proceeding to save the registry, verify that the selected entry in the Registry Editor is My Computer (as shown in the fig.), else if u select some other entry in the registry, only that value will be saved and not the whole registry!! So, be careful while exporting the values.
Step 1: While in the Registry Editor(with My computer selected), Click File>>Export...
Step 2: Select the location where u want to save the registry back up.
Step 3: Give a file name and make sure the file type is Registration Files (*.reg).
Step 4: Click Save.
It will take sometime to save all the entries if it is huge, so wait until it finishes saving.
That's it. You successfully made a back up of your registry!
If you have encountered any problem in the process, do post your problems. I will try to solve the problem.
Hope u find this post useful..it should be useful, as we'll be taking back ups of registry many times in future for several hacks. ;)