There are also other ways, like booting to the recovery console, using other boot media (Ultimate Boot CD for Windows comes to mind) for doing this, without going through the pain of an entire OS install.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Schaible Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:56 AM To: Sanford Whiteman Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key Hi, This is a very good idea indeed. ============================================ Am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2005 um 18:26 schrieben Sie: >> Our mail server went down yesterday and there is a good chance we >> will need to re-install the operating system. > BEFORE you overwrite the OS, do a "parallel install" of the OS into > another directory such as \WINCLEAN. Run RegEdit from that install, > choose "load hive," and load the SOFTWARE key from the original > install. Export the \Ipswitch key to a text file. Then you can > overwrite the original install in \WINDOWS. > --Sandy > ------------------------------------ > Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist > Broadleaf Systems, a division of > Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! > > http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/r > elease/ > Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! > http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/downloa d/release/ > > http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/downl > oad/release/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ ============================================ -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen -------------------------------------------- Merlin Consulting Martin Schaible Bahnhofstrasse 27 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone: +41 44 391 30 00 Fax: +41 44 391 32 49 Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.merlinconsulting.ch Support: http://support.merlinconsulting.ch GPS: N47 20.235 E8 34.226 -------------------------------------------- News - Neue Produkte: .:. NOD32 Antivirus System .:. BlueDragon .:. Kiwi Syslog Monitor .:. Paessler GmbH .:. Sawmill Loganalyzer .:. SmarterTools -------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
