Windows XP What registry version is in use?

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How exactly can you determine the date of the registry under which you are currently running?

While pursuing a troublesome crash issue on this XP SP1 PC, I've been using System Restore and ERUNT/ERDNT to change my registry a lot. Initially earlier and earlier - up to a month back. But then, when that failed to solve the problem, back to the present again. And also various other experimental actions, such as using CC Cleaner, Spybot, etc. So now I'm not sure what registry version I am using!

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Terry, West Sussex, UK
 
Well, actually, you are using the same one you started with when you first installed the OS ... system restore is not a back-up program.

You would do better to try and explain the "crash" you had.

Why are you only on SP1 ?

CCleaner, a good programe, but, in my opinion every other "registry fixing" program, do not do what you think they are supposed to do. I know of only one sure method of "fixing" a badly corrupted registry ... Clean Re-Install.

What is the Problem ?


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muckshifter said:
Well, actually, you are using the same one you started with when you first installed the OS
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Eh? Rubbish!

... system restore is not a back-up program.
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Yes it is, and so is ERDNT/ERUNT - they backup snapshots of the registry[/QUOTE]

You would do better to try and explain the "crash" you had.

Why are you only on SP1 ?

CCleaner, a good programe, but, in my opinion every other "registry fixing" program, do not do what you think they are supposed to do. I know of only one sure method of "fixing" a badly corrupted registry ... Clean Re-Install.

What is the Problem ?
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Anyone else with any intelligent thoughts on my actual question please? I had one other helpful response elsewhere last night with the clever approach of saving my current registry with ERUNT (which saves to a dated folder) and matching its size with those previously saved. That should work (assuming I've made no significant changes in the few hours since I restored that version), and I aim to try it this morning.

Seems odd design that nowhere in the entire registry (mine is about 18 MB now) is there apparently a single time/date stamp! I suppose you could force the creation of an artificial one, say by writing a file named to show the date and time, and then looking for it in a specific key that remembers Most Recently Used (MRU) files?


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Terry, West Sussex, UK
 
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