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Saving registry settings
Name: anttipi Date: June 10, 2005 at 14:34:47 Pacific OS: Win XP Home SP2 CPU/Ram: Athlon 3500+/1Gb
Comment:
Hi,
I had to reinstall Windows and had to do all the basic tweaking all over again. Now I've backed up my Windows services registry to a CD. I would like to back up my basic audiovisual Windows settings in case of a reinstall.
Which part of the registry should I copy? I already tried Google, but I just need to have my basic user settings copied, not the whole registry.
Name: wanderer Date: June 10, 2005 at 15:07:59 Pacific
Reply:
and/or do a backup including system state.
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: June 10, 2005 at 16:36:21 Pacific
Reply:
The third alternative is buy and use DeepFreeze. This program will reset your saved configuration each time you reboot. It's very configurable.
Which part of the registry should I copy?
There is no simple part to copy because Windows XP registry is a closely-guarded secret, which is why we are suggesting that you use Ghost, Backup or Deepfreeze.
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