REGEDIT - Saving "Favorites"

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I would like to know if there's a way to save the my FAVORITES list in
Regedit in case I should have a system crash and have to reinstall WindowsXP
I hate to lose the multiple saved Keys/Values I already have. Thank you!
 
Lee

Rather than look for the difficult approach, why not just save the contents
of your favourites folder to either a CD or floppy diskette?..
 
Your "favorites" are contained in the Documents and Settings folder, under your user name, not in the registry.

It is a good idea to backup this entire folder on a home PC, including all users, which will also capture most of the registry. The rest of the registry is in C:\windows\system32\config, which you might also do well to backup.

Since some of the files contained therein are "locked" while XP is running, use the Microsoft routine called NtBackup.exe to save a copy of this directory. It can copy files that are in use. If Ntbackup.exe is not installed, look for it on the XP CDROM:

1. Go to the folder on the CDROM called Valueadd\msft\ntbackup

2. Double-click on the file ntbackup.msi

3. When the wizard is complete, click Finish.


Also, since the "favorites" are nothing but a collection of link to web pages, and each link is its own file, you could also save "favorites" by a simple copy&paste from Documents and Settings to anywhere else.
 
Mike Hall (MS-MVP) said:
Lee

Rather than look for the difficult approach, why not just save the
contents of your favourites folder to either a CD or floppy diskette?..
Click to expand...


The Favorites *folder* contains a bunch of URLs for web sites. That has
nothing to do with the Favorites menu in regedit which lists registry keys
that you frequent in regedit.exe.

I didn't know where the MRU list would be for regedit's Favorites (but then
I've never found this feature to be useful since the keys that I'm trying to
find aren't those that I already know about). Doesn't seem too hard to
figure out with a test. I added a registry key to the regedit's Favorites
and then hunt around in the registry on data items only to see where the
string for that favorites MRU might be. Found it at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit\Favorites

When I deleted the data item holding the favorite registry key, sure enough
it disappeared from regedit's Favorites menu.
 
Export the key that holds them.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit\Favorites

....Alan
 
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