I havea backup of my registry... how do i REPLACE the current reg with the backup?

[Futuramatic]

I wanna restore my registry. I have found that just running the *.reg file restores the keys that are in the backup, but does not detroy keys that are not in the backup. I have some registry entries I need to get rid of, but I dont know where they are. How do I restore my registry so that the only things in the registry are what it is in the backup?

 

[etech]

Have you tried running scanreg? Boot into dos and run scanreg /?. That will give you the options available.

I know you can backup and restore and fix that way, but I have not restored that way myself.

I run the fix about once a month to compact the registery.

 

[Futuramatic]

what file is the registry stored in? what is the name of it? Just curious...

There has to be a windows way to do it... but I am gonna try the scanreg too...

 

[Taz4158]

Scanreg /restore

 

[Oyeve]

system.dat and user.dat in the windows directory are your regs.