how can I keep my XP registry after installing XP 64 bit?

[plastick]

Hey im wondering if there is a way that I can restore my Win XP regisrty after I install my new Windows XP 64-bit Edition.

I dont want to have to reinstall all my freekni programs and everything:disgust:

 

[Nothinman]

Unless you do an upgrade and it pulls them all over, nothing simple will work.

 

[plastick]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Unless you do an upgrade and it pulls them all over, nothing simple will work.

figers

 

[Nothinman]

AFAIK you would have to go through your current registry and export all of the keys you want to save and then reimport them on the new system. But you would have to know exactly what corresponds to what because just blindly exporting/importing everything would most likely break some core windows things.

Yet another reaon why I love plain-text config files.

 

[plastick]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
AFAIK you would have to go through your current registry and export all of the keys you want to save and then reimport them on the new system. But you would have to know exactly what corresponds to what because just blindly exporting/importing everything would most likely break some core windows things.

Yet another reaon why I love plain-text config files.

where can i get these... "plain-text files" you speak of?

 

[Nothinman]

Any unix system.

 

[plastick]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Any unix system.

*suddenly stares off into space* ...LINUX....

I'll have to wip out my SuSE again sometime here..

 

[Nothinman]

There are windows tools that use ini files, but they're pretty rare these days. Things like FF, Thunderbird, gvim, etc which started out on Linux also generally use text files for configuration and only use the registry for for Windows-specific things like being the default browser, menu integration, etc.

 

[plastick]

oh well ill just do it the hard way :disgust: