Harold:
How about 20 seconds for the whole
backup operation......
Also, if the registry is so corrupted that the computer
will not boot, then you can restore the System.dat and
User.dat files from a DOS prompt with a boot disk.
Create a Batch file to zip both files to a folder and place
the batch file in the C:\windows\command folder.
Then RUN the batch file from windows. The zip file is
much smaller than the exported registry file from
regedit so frequent backup's should not use a lot of space.
Mark the zip file with mmddhh and delete
backups more than 2 months old.
Do a backup before every change to the registry or
your system and you should be able to recover
with ease when things go wrong.
Wally
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:36:57 -0500 Harold B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings again,
>
> Regarding using System.dat and User.dat to to backup and restore the
> registry, and doing it all in DOS, why would that be necessary if all
> one has to do to backup the registry is open regedit, and export the
> registry to any designated folder. As an aside, when I do that, I
> name
> the backup using the date yymmdd which keeps the backups (if more
> than
> one is necessary) in chronological order. Then when a restore is
> needed,
> I return to that folder and �give a double click� (as my grandmother
> would have expressed it if they had computers in her day).
> Snip
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