There are a few ways to backup your Windows Registry. If you are using an older version of Windows, then you can find a program on your Windows CD to make a backup for you. On the newer versions of Windows, a backup is usually done automatically.
Reading your computer manual or a quick visit to the Windows website will help you learn more about whether or not your registry is automatically backed up. Windows XP and Vista create restore points, use this feature before you make any major changes to your system, as any problems that arise can easily be resolved by simply reverting back to a previous restore point.
If your Windows registry has become corrupted, and you are savvy enough that you can edit your own registry, then there is a program built within your copy of Windows that you can use to edit. With the Windows registry editor, you can make a copy and burn it onto a CD for safe keeping in case your registry does become corrupted. To restore your corrupted Windows registry from a backed up file is incredibly easy. If you are using Windows XP, all you have to do is open the.
REG file that you created using the registry editor, and Windows will merge it into the Windows registry automatically.
If you are using an older version of Windows, then you will have to restart your computer into DOS mode and load the. REG file that way.
There are also software programs you can buy to help fix your Windows registry. Just do a little research to find one that works for you. To take any concern you may have about creating a backup of your registry, it may be a safer option to purchase a competent registry cleaner, it will create a registry backup and restore your registry with one simple mouse click. They also identify invalid entries within your registry, when removed these can have a dramatic effect on system performance.
Other files may be corrupted. You must determine whether only the registry hives are corrupted or whether other files system and data are corrupted. If corruption is not limited to registry hives, the corruption may cause by faulty hardware. This hardware may include anything that is involved in writing to a disk, such as the following:.
If you suspect faulty hardware, the hardware vendor must thoroughly investigate the condition of all computer components. If one or two registries hives consistently become corrupted for no reason, the problem probably occurs at shutdown and is not discovered until you try to load the registry hive at the next restart. In this scenario, the registry hive is written to disk when you shut down the computer, and this process may stop the computer or a component in the computer before the writing is completed.
Restore the computer to a previous state before registry corruption occurred. One tool that you can use to back up registry hives is Recovery Console.
For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. Check the hardware, the disk, the firmware drivers, and the BIOS. You can quickly fix the registry error yourself. Windows recommends trying this before manually restoring your system. The ASR detects computer failure and recovers your computer.
Routinely backup your data using the ASR in case your registry is ever corrupted. ASR will restore the disk configurations from the saved backup file. If this does not work, see Windows for a step by step guide to recover the corrupted registry via the Recovery Console. Print out the instructions since you will not have access to them during this process. You may also turn to a registry cleaner that automatically cleans the excessive data in your registry.
You do not need any computer knowledge to use this! This conversation is currently closed to new comments. Well, the thing that causes Windows to slow down is registry bloat. Over time, the registry just grows too large for the system to remain stable. Since you recover from backups, you start out each recovery with a registry that is bloated and ready to fail. The simple solution is a clean installation of all of your software and then a recovery of just your data files.
That way the bloat and corruption that exists in your old registry will not come along with the recovery. Keep in mind that even patches add to the registry.
When one patch supersedes another, that can lead to registry problems months later. The good news is that XP is much more stable than Windows 95 or 98 was and you can go 2 or 3 years before you need to start over.
I was very pleased to see your response so quickly. Here are some of my comments regarding this topic. In regards to the possibility of Registry Bloat, re-installing all software again seems like you would only delay the issue. Also as a side note, I have not noticed any performance degradation with my system over the years.
I will not discard "Registry Bloat" as being a possibility, however I would like to find out what is causing it. A clean install as easy as it may seem, it appears that by the time you re-install all software and apply all the patches and updates you would end up where you started with the last backup. Let's assume the registry is bloated.
Then the question is how to clean it up. If you have any suggestions how to clean up the registry if it is bloated I would be interested in hearing about it. Thanks again for taking the time to reply. Registry bloat is a cumulative problem. There is a maximum functional size for the registry hives.
Once the files are too large and take up too much memory, the system performance suffers. While software installs all contribute to the overall size of the registry, it is uninstalls, reinstalls, and patches that create the most bloat. The hard fact is that most uninstallers and update patches do a poor job of clearing out what they originally added to the registry. And, they do an even poor job of freeing up space in the registry.
Where Windows 98 had about a 6 month life before registry bloat started slowing things down, Windows XP can go 2 to 4 years before bloat becomes an issue. As far as dealing with the issues of registry bloat, the first step is having enough system RAM.
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