When does XP create repair folder?

[SoulAssassin]

Under c:\windows\repair XP stores a backup copy of your registry, often when you have a corrupt registry file you can copy the backup file from that location to c:\windows\system32\config to get the system to boot. Problem is the files in the repair directory are often very old so you can get the system to boot but it doesn't take it back to what it looked like prior to the failure.

Does anyone know if there's a way to force Windows to backup the registry to the repair folder? I'd like to script it to run every few weeks.

 

[pcgeek11]

The repair folder copies are written during the Windows XP installation. I'm not sure you can script it as you would have to go into safe mode under the administrator account to do it anyway.

pcgeek

 

[Brazen]

Maybe if you can find a program that will force a copy of an open file? It should be possible; backup programs can do it.

 

[SoulAssassin]

I thought it was done during the install. It's good that you can copy those files over but say your software file becomes corrupt, yeah you can use the backup and get the system to boot but it doesn't bring back any info on your installed apps. Best way to script it I can think of requires booting NTFSDOS and backing it up that way. It should do it periodically on startup or shutdown.