Tuesday, 20 March 2012

How to back up registry in windows 7?


    The registry is the database that contains all the configuration options and settings for the Windows OS. Most of the virus directly attack the registry . Also some time we ourselves try to tamper with the registry. So it is were necessary to back up the registry.

Follow the following steps

Step 1 : Press 'windows+r' . Type 'regedit' .Press enter.

  
Step 2 : Select Computer at the top as shown.




Step3 : Now File -->Export. Give a filenamre 'backup' . Save it.






Thus we have backup of registry.


To restore the registry

Step 1 : Press 'windows+r' . Type 'regedit' .Press enter.

Step2 : Now File -->Import . And import the 'backup' file saved above

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