Presumably the app comes with a boot disk that will allow you to
explore the various OS's on the disks and overwrite the applicable
registry with the backup you created.
You can do a rollback from Safe Mode or if something really bad happened
I would use the BartPE boot CD, but I have never
after reading about slow computers, i decided that my computer had slowed down
considerably for no real reason. i have 22 gig on a 500 gig HD, a quad core
processor with 3 meg of ram, etc.
when i had a mess on the last machine, i ran TuneUp, and it repaired a number
of problems. so i did a
CAVEAT: i had run a similar program a couple years ago. it found some
200 errors in my registry. after i cleaned them all out, the machine
would not boot, and could not be repaired. i had to reload XP, programs,
and data.
That is why the one I use (Registry First Aid) forces me to make a
While I understand that always backing up is a good thing to do, how
would this have helped in the quoted example? Just trying to
understand if there's a way to boot to the original registry.
Richard P.
CAVEAT: i had run a similar program a couple years ago. it found some
200 errors in my
At 11:02 AM 11/29/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote:
CAVEAT: i had run a similar program a couple years ago. it found some
200 errors in my registry. after i cleaned them all out, the machine
would not boot, and could not be repaired. i had to reload XP, programs,
and data.
That is why the one I use
Presumably the app comes with a boot disk that will allow you to
explore the various OS's on the disks and overwrite the applicable
registry with the backup you created.
I'm sure Tom has tried this boot disk and it has no trouble telling
which OS the backup came from.
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at
The problem with all these programs is that they don't give you a
selection list of things to potentially delete -- along with enough
information to make an informed decision about each item. They don't tell
you what a particular registry entry says/does.
I think the problem is that the list
While I understand that always backing up is a good thing to do, how
would this have helped in the quoted example? Just trying to
understand if there's a way to boot to the original registry.
Yes, you roll back to the previous version of the Registry.
At 11:36 AM 11/29/2008, Richard P. wrote:
While I understand that always backing up is a good thing to do, how
would this have helped in the quoted example? Just trying to
understand if there's a way to boot to the original registry.
Richard P.
Clone the drive or back it up to an image before
