How to Backup and Restore REGISTRY?

Have you thought about losing some important things on your computer when you do some changes on your registry ? Don’t you think that it is a true pity if so? Actually most of us do not have the habbits of backing up files, pictures and a host of other important files. A hard drive crash or a virus could wipe out everything tomorrow, so take a moment to backup everything on your computer. I suspect the reason why most people have not backed up their files is that they have no idea of how to do it. So today, let me give you some simple ways of backing up your registry and give you some peace of mind.

Before we will go to the next step, please make sure that you are familiar of what is registry. Registry is what Windows uses to store hardware and software configuration information, user preferences and setup information on your computer. That is to say that registry is the vital commander of your pc system.

Then how to backup registry? Windows’ registry editor is one choice. To launch the editor, select Start, Run, type regedit, and press ok. To make a backup, select File Export. For the “Export range”, select All, and otherwise do what you would like to do on the dialog box. The step before creats a .reg file and you only double-click it when you want to restore.

There is a disadvantage that you can not restore the entire Registry from this backup. Sometimes even it works, it will not delete new keys created since you made the backup.

And there is another best solution which is Registry Winner software. Registry Winner is a top-ranking error-resolution technology which will fix the computer errors and optimize the system speed. Only one move, that you will fully back-up your pc registry. To launch Registry Winner, click Full Backup and press Backup. If you will find some changed programs have problems, you can also restore them again just to press Restore. Registry Winner provides quite a lot of convenience for you.

This article has given you several simple options to backup your computer registry but the most important thing is to take some actions now. Knowledge without action is useless and you'll enjoy the peace of mind realizing that your most important data is safely backed up.