Registry backup software

Running Vista Home premium w/all updates. I'm not a guru and would
like to know if anyone out there can recommend software that will
automatically backup the registry and enable you to restore it if necessary.

ALso any good registry cleaners?

Thanks for the info.

Happy Thanksgiving

Best advice I can give you is to leave the Registry alone and do not use any Registry Tools at all.

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"Wolverine in Michigan" <> wrote in message news:...
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> Running Vista Home premium w/all updates. I'm not a guru and would
> like to know if anyone out there can recommend software that will
> automatically backup the registry and enable you to restore it if necessary.
>
> ALso any good registry cleaners?
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Happy Thanksgiving

Wolverine in Michigan <> wrote:

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> Running Vista Home premium w/all updates. I'm not a guru and would
>like to know if anyone out there can recommend software that will
>automatically backup the registry and enable you to restore it if necessary.

Google "erunt".

>ALso any good registry cleaners?

There aren't any.

Hi,

1) Erunt, http://www.snapfiles.com/get/erunt.html

2) Do not use any registry cleaner for any reason.

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"Wolverine in Michigan" <> wrote in message
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> Running Vista Home premium w/all updates. I'm not a guru and would
> like to know if anyone out there can recommend software that will
> automatically backup the registry and enable you to restore it if
> necessary.
>
> ALso any good registry cleaners?
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Happy Thanksgiving

Wolverine in Michigan wrote:
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> Running Vista Home premium w/all updates. I'm not a guru and would
> like to know if anyone out there can recommend software that will
> automatically backup the registry and enable you to restore it if
> necessary.
>


ERUNT and NTREGOPT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/


> ALso any good registry cleaners?
>

No such thing.

Why do you even think you'd ever need to clean your registry? What
specific *problems* are you actually experiencing (not some program's
bogus listing of imaginary problems) that you think can be fixed by
using a registry "cleaner?"

If you do have a problem that is rooted in the registry, it would
be far better to simply edit (after backing up, of course) only the
specific key(s) and/or value(s) that are causing the problem. After
all, why use a chainsaw when a scalpel will do the job? Additionally,
the manually changing of one or two registry entries is far less likely
to have the dire consequences of allowing an automated product to make
multiple changes simultaneously. The only thing needed to safely clean
your registry is knowledge and Regedit.exe.

The registry contains all of the operating system's "knowledge" of
the computer's hardware devices, installed software, the location of the
device drivers, and the computer's configuration. A misstep in the
registry can have severe consequences. One should not even turning
loose a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is fully
confident that he knows *exactly* what is going to happen as a result of
each and every change.

Having repeatedly seen the results of inexperienced people using
automated registry "cleaners," I can only advise all but the most
experienced computer technicians (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all.
Experience has shown me that such tools simply are not safe in the hands
of the inexperienced user. If you lack the knowledge and experience to
maintain your registry by yourself, then you also lack the knowledge and
experience to safely configure and use any automated registry cleaner,
no matter how safe they claim to be.

More importantly, no one has ever demonstrated that the use of an
automated registry "cleaner," particularly by an untrained,
inexperienced computer user, does any real good, whatsoever. There's
certainly been no empirical evidence offered to demonstrate that the use
of such products to "clean" WinXP's registry improves a computer's
performance or stability. Given the potential for harm, it's just not
worth the risk.

Granted, most registry "cleaners" won't cause problems each and
every time they're used, but the potential for harm is always there.
And, since no registry "cleaner" has ever been demonstrated to do any
good (think of them like treating the flu with chicken soup - there's no
real medicinal value, but it sometimes provides a warming placebo
effect), I always tell people that the risks far out-weigh the
non-existent benefits.

I will concede that a good registry *scanning* tool, in the hands
of an experienced and knowledgeable technician or hobbyist can be a
useful time-saving diagnostic tool, as long as it's not allowed to make
any changes automatically. But I really don't think that there are any
registry "cleaners" that are truly safe for the general public to use.
Experience has proven just the opposite: such tools simply are not safe
in the hands of the inexperienced user.

A little further reading on the subject:

Why I don't use registry cleaners
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=643

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Cleaner?
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099


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I am not aware of any and wouldn't try any to do so, its not hard or long
process to do it yourself. Click Start > type CMD, right click and click
'Run as Administrator', at the Command prompt, type regedit > click File >
Export give it a name and save. Windows Backup also saves Windows Registry
settings, so you might want to do that too.
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"Wolverine in Michigan" <> wrote in message
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> Running Vista Home premium w/all updates. I'm not a guru and would
> like to know if anyone out there can recommend software that will
> automatically backup the registry and enable you to restore it if
> necessary.
>
> ALso any good registry cleaners?
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Happy Thanksgiving

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:09:11 -0500, Wolverine in Michigan
<> wrote:


> Running Vista Home premium w/all updates. I'm not a guru and would
> like to know if anyone out there can recommend software that will
> automatically backup the registry and enable you to restore it if necessary.


Erunt is excellent (and is freeware).



> ALso any good registry cleaners?


Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the
registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and
don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and
what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,
having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
it may have.

Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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"Anne" <> wrote:

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>"Ken Blake, MVP" <> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:09:11 -0500, Wolverine in Michigan
>> <> wrote:
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>>> Running Vista Home premium w/all updates. I'm not a guru and would
>>> like to know if anyone out there can recommend software that will
>>> automatically backup the registry and enable you to restore it if
>>> necessary.
>>
>>
>> Erunt is excellent (and is freeware).
>>
>Doesn't the restore point that's automatically generated everyday contain a
>copy of the registry?

And more.

Ann

A question for you, How do you get to the Restore Point or the Registry Back Up when you cannot boot your computer anymore after the Registry Cleaner removed something that it should have not.

Seen it happen more times then not. Some learn the hard way

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> "Ken Blake, MVP" <> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:09:11 -0500, Wolverine in Michigan
>> <> wrote:
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>>> Running Vista Home premium w/all updates. I'm not a guru and would
>>> like to know if anyone out there can recommend software that will
>>> automatically backup the registry and enable you to restore it if
>>> necessary.
>>
>>
>> Erunt is excellent (and is freeware).
>>
> Doesn't the restore point that's automatically generated everyday contain a
> copy of the registry?
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> anne
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>"Anne" <> wrote in message
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>> "Ken Blake, MVP" <> wrote in message
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>>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:09:11 -0500, Wolverine in Michigan
>>> <> wrote:
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>>>
>>>> Running Vista Home premium w/all updates. I'm not a guru and
>>>> would
>>>> like to know if anyone out there can recommend software that will
>>>> automatically backup the registry and enable you to restore it if
>>>> necessary.
>>>
>>>
>>> Erunt is excellent (and is freeware).
>>>
>> Doesn't the restore point that's automatically generated everyday
>> contain a
>> copy of the registry?
>>
> Ann
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> A question for you, How do you get to the Restore Point or the
> Registry Back Up when you cannot boot your computer anymore after the
> Registry Cleaner removed something that it should have not.
>
> Seen it happen more times then not. Some learn the hard way
>

Easy - boot to the Vista DVD and use System Restore from the Vista
Windows Recovery Environment. Helped one of our developers do this just
the other day.

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