Reset registry

Post by **corpse** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:14 am

Windows XP home SP2.

A freinds computer is somewhat screwed and systen restore is turned off. Can I reset the registry to an earlier point without systen restore.

Post by **dzjepp** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:27 am

You could if your friend had used regedit and exported the entire tree, but I doubt he did that?

If he decides to backup the registry in the future, I'd recommend using erunt for that

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

Post by **corpse** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:19 am

Thanks for the help

Post by **§ìgñå** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:35 am

Also google for how to reset xp's "registry hive". the hive is a backup of xp's registry that was made when windows was first installed. it should be possible to reset xp back to the hive so it acts like a fresh install of xp.