Restoring Registry

[Libertyblue]

I need some help with restoring my registry to an early time when it was working fine. Can someone help me on this.

Problem is I was trying to install MS Office 2000 Pro. Was told to uninstall MS Office for Small Business first. So I did. Now when I try installing the Pro version I get error stating there are no known files on this hard drive and installation will terminate. not in so many words,,, but that is roughly what it says. Installation stops.

Any tips or tricks.

[deltaf508]

Try to post your question in only one (1) forum... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

and BTW:

check your other post http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Gary

[RenaissanceMan]

There's ways in W9x to restore to registry from the standard backups; System & User.da0 (all of these actions must be performed in PURE DOS -- either starting up in DOS are shutting down to it -- DON'T TRY THIS IN A DOS WINDOW!!!):

cd\
c:
cd windows
ATTRIB -S -H -R C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.*
ATTRIB -S -H -R C:\WINDOWS\USER.*
ren system.dat system.old
ren system.da0 system.dat
ren user.dat user.old
ren user.da0 user.dat
ATTRIB +S +H +R C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT
ATTRIB +S +H +R C:\WINDOWS\USER.DAT

But you want to use an exported registry. Here I assume you saved it in C:\windows & gave it the name Backup.reg
So all you need to do is (assuming regedit.exe is in C:\windows):

cd\
C:
cd windows
regedit /c Backup.reg

That's it.

WARNING: W95's Regedit.exe has a bug in it's operation that might prevent this from working (long registry keys). Copy the W98 version of Regedit.exe to your system

Or



But if you want to use an exported registry, like the one you made from the registry editor.. ie Regbak.reg

Here I assume you saved it in C:\windows & gave it the name Regbak.reg

So all you need to do is (assuming regedit.exe is in C:\windows):

use a boot disk and boot to the command prompt.
Then change to the windows directory by typing cd\ then press enter
Then type c: and press enter
Then type cd windows and press enter.
Now type Regedit /c regbak.reg
If you typed the commands properly and your saved registry file was in the specified location then you Will be able to restore your registry.

[reddog4629]

If it's W'98 then why not go into dos and type "scanreg /restore"
(Without quotes)

That will let u go back a few days.

:-)

[socalgal]

LibertyBlue

Please post your topic once only in the most appropriate forum, otherwise it gets confusing. Thanks.

Apologies to those responding here. Feel free to c&p your replies to:

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum2/HTML/014556.html