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New installation, import old registry settings?

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orion23

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Hi,

I just formatted windows and would like to import some old registry setting from a previous installations (on a different drive)

I have some games installed on drive "E" and will remain on drive "E"

I just want to know if it's possible to import the values or keys for those installations only so that I don't have to reinstall the games again!

TIA!
 
Well, first, you said you reformatted, so do you still have those old registry settings? They are stored in hive files on the boot drive, not on E: where your games are.

Second, it's not easy to do this successfully unless you know all of the changes that the installation made to the system. You could import some of the registry settings, but miss others, or get them all but not have certain controls and libraries registered.

In general you're better off reinstalling.
 
The old installation is intact under a different drive.

I though that maybe that registry keys for games would only go to the software branches and that they could be imported.

 
The installation might be intact on the other drive, but the registry settings were on your windows boot drive. If you reformatted it and didn't export the registry to a file first, it's history.
 
nope. unless you exported the reg file from your previous windows installation and know exactally what registry values the game needs, it's impossible. you're better of reinstalling.
 
I have installed windows to a different drive, the old installation still exists and I can even boot with that drive if I wanted to.
 
Ah, ok, that clarifies it. You said that in your OP but I didn't catch it. I still don't think you will have much luck doing this, but if it's really important you might search for forums postings that list the keys to be moved for certain games or whatnot. You may also find some "repair installation" tools out there, again for specific products, that will do the trick. You don't see this often for games, though.
 
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