Hi Ben - Well, your second question first - It's regedt32.exe - no space
between the t and the 3. However, again I recommend that for this VDD
error fix you don't attempt to modify the Registry directly yourself, but
use the VDDFix.exe program that I gave you the link for to correct the VDD
error, since the manual fix is a bit complicated and you will have to follow
the Knowledge Base article carefully.
With regard to your first question - While you can export (most of) the
Registry for backup from regedit.exe (Note, this is NOT regedt32.exe from
above) by selecting My Computer and then clicking on Registry|Export
Registry File, a much preferable approach is the following. (You can ignore
for the moment the more complicated recovery stuff, and just be concerned
for now with the basic backup using Erunt and restore [if that should become
necessary] using Erdnt. You might want to set up a scheduled backup in the
future, however.):
Get Erunt here for all NT-based computers including XP:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/ I've set it up to take a
scheduled backup each night at 12:01AM on a weekly round-robin basis, and a
Monthly on the 1st of each month. See here for how to set that up:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt, and for some
useful information about this subject
This program is one of the best things around - saved my butt on many
occasions, and will also run very nicely from a DOS prompt (in case you've
done something that won't let you boot any more and need to revert to a
previous Registry) IF you're FAT32 OR have a DOS startup disk with NTFS
write drivers in an NTFS system. (There is also a way using the Recovery
Console to get back to being "bootable" even without separate DOS write NTFS
drivers, after which you can do a normal ERDNT restore. If you make your
backup into a folder inside your Windows or Winnt folder, you can restore at
a Recovery Console boot by copying the files from that ERDNT folder into the
system32\config one. After a good boot, then do another normal ERDNT
restore to also restore the user hives.) (BTW, it also includes a Registry
defragger program). Free, and very, very highly recommended.
FYI, quoting from the above document:
Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to make a
complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole registry
(for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is saved), nor can the
exported file be used later to replace the current registry with the old
one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is merged with the current
registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of old and new registry keys.
See if this helps.
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Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP
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Ben Stevenson said:
I have just opened OE and have read thru your instructions, and will
get down to doing them. I have a few questions first to enhance my
knowledge. I would like to be in a position to do these in the future
as the occassion arises. Please do not refer me to MS KB articles as
they can be quite daunting and are not written for simple folk.
1. How do I backup and restore the registry?
2. Where do I get regedit 32.exe from? I typed it in Run and it
cannot be found. I am aware of regedit and have used a little bit of
it before - just very simple stuff.
Thanks
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