Backing Up and Restoring the Windows XP Registry. Backing Up and Restoring the Windows XP Registry. It wasnt very long. I installed XP that I was messing around with the registry. I. suspect youre probably going to be doing the same thing or else you. Before you make any changes. Its pretty dry reading. XP as you would expect. Atlstr H. There are two ways of. The. software based method is generally considered to be safe, although a. Anyone who has used a. Control Panel is an excellent example. Make a change to one. Control Panel settings and almost assuredly you have. Its just that you are. Control Panel from seeing what went on behind the. Directly accessing the. There used to be two versions of. Registry Editor, regedit and regedt. XP they have been. Microsoft Registry Editor Version 5. Type either. name in the Run box and Version 5. The only real disadvantage of not having regedt. Version 5. 1, but it just means you. And make sure you have a valid backup and. How The Windows XP. Registry is Structured. Open the Registry. Editor Fig. 0. 1 using Start Run and typing regedit in the Open. Understanding. Registry Editor is much easier if you think of the left pane as the. Keys Pane and the right side as the Values Pane. In the left pane. Ive. inserted the root key abbreviations in red text behind each key. Registry Editor uses a. Windows Explorer but with one. Recover Overwritten Notepad Files' title='Recover Overwritten Notepad Files' />In Windows Explorer you have folders in both the. Registry Editor there are never. In Registry Editor the. Since. the right hand pane is reserved for values only there are no folders. Each of the five main. Many sub keys have sub keys below them, in some cases. Windows Explorer works, registry locations are. Just remember that any reference to a registry. FTN8I0ldIZoxv4tj-s-.png' alt='Recover Overwritten Notepad Files' title='Recover Overwritten Notepad Files' />Think of the left side as Key Pane and the right side as Values. Pane. Fig. 0. 1Notice at the. Registry Editor that My ComputerHKEYCLASSESROOT is. This display will change as you navigate down through. Types of. Registry Backups. Its critical that. Recover Overwritten Notepad Files Won\u0027t' title='Recover Overwritten Notepad Files Won\u0027t' />The temptation to make one little change without backing up is. It can also be deadly. I speak from experience here, and most. I did, but. hopefully youll be a little bit smarter than I was. That said. there are different ways of backing up so lets look at each one. Backing up is simply. When you invoke the export function you are given a. Fig. 0. 2. Each one of the. Choosing the wrong type can give you unexpected. Understanding each type and when to use it is essential. Registration Files. The Registration Files option creates a. This is. probably the most well known file format used for backing up the. The Registration File can be used in two ways. As a. text file it can be read and edited using Notepad outside of. Registry Editor. Once the changes have been made and saved. Merge command adds the. FR.png' alt='Recover Overwritten Notepad Files' title='Recover Overwritten Notepad Files' />If you make additions. Registration File, anything that youve added. Registration. File will be overwritten when it is merged. Registry Hive. Files Unlike the Registration Files option above, the Registry. Hive Files option creates a binary image of the selected. The image file is not editable via Notepad nor can. I mportant Read this first To play messages wave files and to read messages text files over the phone line the PC voice modem or compatible telephony. Update on 4th February 2009 Wireless security is now fully functional. Finally found a way to flash back a DIR300 running DDWRT back to DLink firmware. Windows Install ISOs, Easy2Boot, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8. However, what. the Registry Hive Files format does is create an image perfect. Text Files This. It creates a text file. Its most useful. AutoCAD Tips. AutoCAD R14, 2000, 2000i and 2002 Tips More AutoCAD 2004 Tips. AutoCAD 2004 Tips. If you want to save your AutoCAD file to a. It cannot be merged back into the registry like a. Registration File. Win. 9xNT4. Registration Files This option creates a. Registration Files option. Its used by. previous Windows versions and serves no purpose in XP unless you. XP into a previous version of Windows. Considering the four. Registry Hive Files option. No matter. what goes wrong in your editing, importing the image of the key will. If you want to edit. Registration Files for your backup. If you just want a copy. Text Files. The Actual Backup. Process. The actual process of. In the left hand pane of regedit, select. Export to open the. Export Registry File Property Sheet. From there, its merely a. To be on the safe side, it certainly wouldnt hurt to make a. Registry Hive Files and Registration Files formats. There are two notes you. If My Computer is. Registry Hive Files format. This is. equivalent to backing up the entire registry. XP requires you to. System State backup in this instance. Backing up the. System State is discussed further down in this articleIf My Computer is. Registration Files as the backup file format but this is not the. In the following. Im going to refer to this screen capture frequently to. Fig. 0. 3. Backing Up Individual. Values Take a quick look at Fig. HKEYCURRENTUSERControl PanelDesktop. In the Values Pane youll see the Wait. To. Kill. App. Timeout value. It will be the subject of backing up. Its important to remember that the. XP itself or by an installed. By itself it does nothing. At first glance that may not. Look at the majority of registry edits and youll see. Combine. that knowledge with the fact that XP or an application has to be. Fig. 0. 4 illustrates how the previous. Its important to note that this. For. this example I have decided to modify the value of the string. Wait. To. Kill. App. Timeout. The Wait. To. Kill. App. Timeout string value. Im going to modify. Once I modify the value I might forget. I decide if the change I. To guard against the original value being. Ive created the string value TEGWait. To. Kill. App. Timeout. For this tutorial Ive used TEG. If. your dog was named Fido, you might use Fido before the real value. Fig. 0. 4. Now, looking at the. I can go back to the original string value. At this point the question is often asked why having the two. Remember. what was said previously XP or an application has to be programmed. There is no. application or part of XP that is programmed to look for a string. TEGWait. To. Kill. App. Timeout so it can happily co exist with. Wait. To. Kill. App. Timeout, providing a journal or record of what changes. For a more detailed record you can. TEG0. 82. 52. 00. Wait. To. Kill. App. Timeout that is shown highlighted in blue. Fig. 0. 5. If the change doesnt. An easier way to revert back to the original value is to. Rename. Eliminate the. If you do a lot of. Two months. from now if I want to know if I made a modification to the. Wait. To. Kill. App. Timeout value, all I have to do is open Registry. Editor, navigate to the HKEYCURRENTUSERControl PanelDesktop key. Wait. To. Kill. App. Timeout with the backup entries. By. using the dated prefix I can not only tell what change was made but. After the value modification has been. I. always leave them as a permanent record and have never noticed any. Backing Up. Individual Keys Prefix. Method. One of the first. Backing Up Individual Values is what. Its a good question and Ill go through. In the previous section we were working in the. HKEYCURRENTUSERControl PanelDesktop key so lets apply a prefix to. Desktop key and see what happens. Open Fig. 0. 6 to see. HKEYCURRENTUSERControl PanelDesktop before any changes are. Note that HKEYCURRENTUSERControl PanelDesktop also has a. Window. Metrics. Open Fig. HKEYCURRENTUSERControl PanelDesktop. Nothing has been. TEG prefix to the Desktop key. No. changes were made to the sub key Window. Metrics. What do you think. Open Fig. 0. 8 and youll see that. XP automatically recreated the HKEYCURRENTUSERControl. PanelDesktop key that is shown with the green highlight. However. its a far cry from what the original HKEYCURRENTUSERControl. PanelDesktop key looked like before it was modified to. TEGHKEYCURRENTUSERControl PanelDesktop. There is only one. Values Pane and that is Default, plus there is no.