How can I restore the registry in XP from a backup

I recently backed up this computer. It's WinXP SP3.
I did a direct backup, by simply copying the entire hard drive to a USB
portable Harddrive.

Because Windows does not allow copying the Windows folder (and Documents
and Settings folder), what I did was copy everything else on the
harddrive except those two folders while booted into Windows.

Then I shut down, and rebooted using a flash drive with an old small
copy of PC-Linux. Once booted to Linux, I copied the Windows and Docs &
Settings folders to my backup drive.

Although XP is booting ok, I recently installed a HP "ALL in One"
printer/scanner. The software from HP, really screwed up the computer.
All I wanted was to install the drivers for that printer and possibly
the scanner program (which is a photo editor type thing).

Well, that 150+ meg file had other ideas. It wanted to install all sorts
of CRAP. Such as a lot of online stuff, where they can update my
software, send me notices and advertising, and more junk.

I should mention that this particular computer is never and will never
be connected to the internet. I use it to store a lot of personal files,
photos, music, and videos. I also use it to do some graphic editing. To
protect my data, I have never and will never connect that computer to
the internet.

Installing that HP software was a huge hassle. It took a half hour. I
had to reboot once, it asked me for personal identification (which I
either skipped or types in some bogus fake ****). It loaded Firefox
several times trying to go online, and was a major pain in the butt.
I even did a selective install, so I could NOT INSTALL much of the
garbage it offerred.

After I installed it, it more or less took over my computer. It was in
the forefront as soon as I booted. It slowed down the whole computer,
and annoyed me to no end.

The scanner on the printer did work on low resolution scans. Then I
tried to do a very high resolution scan, and the computer locked up. My
only way out of that mess was to unplug the computer. When I turned it
back on, a messsage popped up saying I need to install something from
HP. I hit "cancel" the message vanished and came right back. I could not
get rid of it at all. Again, I unmplugged the puter, as soon as I turned
it back on that f**king message came back.

I loaded control panel and REMOVE PROGRAMS. I removed all three of the
entries from HP. When I finished, that error thing was gone, but there
was still a lot of HP stuff popping up. The folder called HP (in program
files) was not fully removed, in fact it contained several hundred
files, and a folder called "Bin" which I was not able to delete. There
were two HP files loaded at STARTUP. I finally killed them, but still
could not delete that "Bin" folder.

I shutdown, booted using my Linux flash drive, and deleted everything
remaining in that HP folder and the folder itself.

I rebooted into XP, and XP was once again running normally. Then I
loaded "Reg Seeker". There were 1132 worthless entries in the registry,
ALL but 3 of them were HP related. I removed all of them.

Like I said, XP is working fine, but I'd really like to just restore a
registry from BEFORE I installed that f**kling HP garbage. I dont have
"System Restore" enabled, so I cant restore the registry that way. I
just want to restore it from my backup.

At first I thought about using my Linux booter, renaming the existing
registry files and copying the registry entried from my backup drive to
my harddrive.

I have done that in Windows 98 easily, but 98 only has 2 files to copy.
XP has a lot more of them, and google showed me some articles that
explain that XP has what they call "hives". But nothing showed me which
files I need to copy.... Or where....

Can someone please tell me which files to copy and their exact location
(path).

Thanks

---

One other thing.
I still want to use that printer/scanner. (I should mention that I do
NOT intend to use the printer. It has no ink, and I DO NOT need a
printer. I only want to use the scanner part of that machine.

There is no way in hell that I'll run that HP software installer
again....

I know that I do not need the HP editing program. I have an older
version of Photoshop and have Paint Shop Pro. Both of them have a
feature to IMPORT from a scanner.

But I DO need the drivers for that printer/scanner. Is there a way to
ONLY install the drivers? Can I download ONLY the drivers somewhere?
The printer is an HP Photosmart C4480.

I really could use some help. Although I know my way around a computer,
I am NOT a techie, so please post in laymens terms.

NOTE: If I had the chance, I'd like to tell HP what I think of their
****ty software, and it would NOT BE NICE!!!

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 14:15:58 -0400, wrote:

I recently backed up this computer. It's WinXP SP3.
I did a direct backup, by simply copying the entire hard drive to a USB
portable Harddrive.

You are far better using an imaging program like achronis.
You can get a subset of that for free as Disk Wizard on the
Maxtor/Seagate web site. As long as you have a Max/gate drive
reporting somewhere in your system it will run (even if that is a bad
drive)
There may be a trick to get your registry over but I have never been
successful doing it. I am watching tho.

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:59:26 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 14:15:58 -0400, wrote:

I recently backed up this computer. It's WinXP SP3.
I did a direct backup, by simply copying the entire hard drive to a USB
portable Harddrive.

You are far better using an imaging program like achronis.
You can get a subset of that for free as Disk Wizard on the
Maxtor/Seagate web site. As long as you have a Max/gate drive
reporting somewhere in your system it will run (even if that is a bad
drive)
There may be a trick to get your registry over but I have never been
successful doing it. I am watching tho.

I know what you are saying, but I dont have an image made prior to
installing the problem software. Just a copy!

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 16:29:04 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:59:26 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 14:15:58 -0400, wrote:

I recently backed up this computer. It's WinXP SP3.
I did a direct backup, by simply copying the entire hard drive to a USB
portable Harddrive.

You are far better using an imaging program like achronis.
You can get a subset of that for free as Disk Wizard on the
Maxtor/Seagate web site. As long as you have a Max/gate drive
reporting somewhere in your system it will run (even if that is a bad
drive)
There may be a trick to get your registry over but I have never been
successful doing it. I am watching tho.

I know what you are saying, but I dont have an image made prior to
installing the problem software. Just a copy!


I paid a few bucks for the achronis retail package that images my C:
drive regularly by itself and it has saved me a couple of times when I
loaded something that hosed up my system. It is far better than System
Restore in Windoze. I let the images go to a removable drive that gets
rotated with 2 others as an ABC rotation. That way even if a crypto
locker gets me, I have an air gapped option. My "data" is on another
physical drive that is easy to simply copy and I keep offline copies
of that too. Drives are cheap and if you keep your "data" on another
drive, old drives that are not useful for much else, make a good place
to store C: images.

(Just chat - I don't answer your main question; I say this now so you
can just skip if you want!)

In message ,
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I recently backed up this computer. It's WinXP SP3.
I did a direct backup, by simply copying the entire hard drive to a USB
portable Harddrive.

Because Windows does not allow copying the Windows folder (and Documents
and Settings folder), what I did was copy everything else on the
harddrive except those two folders while booted into Windows.

Then I shut down, and rebooted using a flash drive with an old small
copy of PC-Linux. Once booted to Linux, I copied the Windows and Docs &
Settings folders to my backup drive.

(I think there are some files in the root, too.)

As another has said, making an image is better (Acronis and Macrium seem
to be the most popular; I use Macrium because it worked the first time I
tried it so I haven't tried Acronis). I do this with my C: drive, having
moved everything other than Windows, most software, and a _few_ other
things to D: (actually a D: _partition_, this being a netbook with only
room for one drive); this makes C: smaller and thus quicker to image. I
do more or less as you do for D: - just a plain copy; or rather I did, I
use SyncToy now which saves a lot of time, but the result is the same,
just a copy. (I do three on a rotating basis. Ditto for the images of
C:.)

But fair enough, you haven't done this.

Although XP is booting ok, I recently installed a HP "ALL in One"

When you say "XP is booting OK", do you mean after a restore of the
copies you made?

printer/scanner. The software from HP, really screwed up the computer.

IKWYM. Bundled printer/scanner software can really make a mess.
[]
I should mention that this particular computer is never and will never
be connected to the internet. I use it to store a lot of personal files,
photos, music, and videos. I also use it to do some graphic editing. To
protect my data, I have never and will never connect that computer to
the internet.

Provided you make copies, and are reasonably careful to keep any malware
out of the copies, you can let it; I connect this one most of the time
it's on.
[]
I loaded control panel and REMOVE PROGRAMS. I removed all three of the
entries from HP. When I finished, that error thing was gone, but there
was still a lot of HP stuff popping up. The folder called HP (in program
files) was not fully removed, in fact it contained several hundred
files, and a folder called "Bin" which I was not able to delete. There
were two HP files loaded at STARTUP. I finally killed them, but still
could not delete that "Bin" folder.

I shutdown, booted using my Linux flash drive, and deleted everything
remaining in that HP folder and the folder itself.

Revo uninstaller is worth getting (the free version is pretty good).
Does better than most app.s' own uninstaller. (Its default way of
working is to run app.s' own uninstallers anyway, and then do more. I
think it watches the uninstaller to see where and what it removes, then
does a more thorough job if it.)

I rebooted into XP, and XP was once again running normally. Then I
loaded "Reg Seeker". There were 1132 worthless entries in the registry,
ALL but 3 of them were HP related. I removed all of them.

Since you know they were all HP related, I presume you must have looked
at all of them! Very tedious!

Like I said, XP is working fine, but I'd really like to just restore a
registry from BEFORE I installed that f**kling HP garbage. I dont have
"System Restore" enabled, so I cant restore the registry that way. I
just want to restore it from my backup.

I know how you feel; however, I don't know for sure. I'd presume doing
more or less what you did in reverse, i. e. putting files back from a
Linux boot, might work, but I can't give any assurance it would, or even
that it wouldn't break the system )-:.
[]
One other thing.
I still want to use that printer/scanner. (I should mention that I do
NOT intend to use the printer. It has no ink, and I DO NOT need a
printer. I only want to use the scanner part of that machine.

There is no way in hell that I'll run that HP software installer
again....

I know that I do not need the HP editing program. I have an older
version of Photoshop and have Paint Shop Pro. Both of them have a
feature to IMPORT from a scanner.

IrfanView will do that too, and run a lot faster than either of those.

But I DO need the drivers for that printer/scanner. Is there a way to
ONLY install the drivers? Can I download ONLY the drivers somewhere?
The printer is an HP Photosmart C4480.

Assuming HP haven't deleted the XP drivers, then you _should_ be able to
get just those from the HP website (I know how you feel about HP, but I
wouldn't get them from anywhere else). You'll have to do battle with the
site, to (a) find the XP part, (b) make sure you do indeed only get the
drivers, but they should be there somewhere. Hang on, I'll have a look
.... Ah. I get to
https://support.hp.com/gb-en/drivers.../model/3655559
, which says "No software or drivers are available for this product with
the selected operating system." But that _might_ be because it's somehow
detected I'm in gb-en land, so you might have more luck. I tried
changing that to us-en, but didn't get anything different. Seems very
mean of them if they have deleted the XP drivers - they include XP in
the drop-down list, and I presume the CD _did_ say it supported XP.

You _may_ be able to extract just the drivers from the CD, possibly by
looking inside ZIP or CAB or INI or ... files.

I really could use some help. Although I know my way around a computer,
I am NOT a techie, so please post in laymens terms.

NOTE: If I had the chance, I'd like to tell HP what I think of their
****ty software, and it would NOT BE NICE!!!



(-:
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You didn't make a disk image.
Now, you know better.
MAKE A DISK IMAGE NOW, while your system still works fine.
Then go messing around in the registry deleting stuff.
At least you'll be able to get back where you are now
after something goes wrong.

_If_ you also make the boot CD that many imaging softwares (certainly
Macrium) lets you. [If you don't, having an image is no good - if you
can't boot, you can't restore the image.]
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On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:59:26 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 14:15:58 -0400, wrote:

I recently backed up this computer. It's WinXP SP3.
I did a direct backup, by simply copying the entire hard drive to a USB
portable Harddrive.
You are far better using an imaging program like achronis.
You can get a subset of that for free as Disk Wizard on the
Maxtor/Seagate web site. As long as you have a Max/gate drive
reporting somewhere in your system it will run (even if that is a bad
drive)
There may be a trick to get your registry over but I have never been
successful doing it. I am watching tho.

I know what you are saying, but I dont have an image made prior to
installing the problem software. Just a copy!

Was your System Restore enabled before installing the HP software ?

System Restore points keep a copy of the registry files.

The only time it's not recommended to use them, is... "malware". Malware
ruins them, as one of the first things it attacks on the computer.

*******

While System Restore is pretty good, it has rules about what
it records and what it doesn't record. As a result, your
best bet would be to select "Uninstall" from Add/Remove Programs
for the HP package first. We know the HP uninstaller won't do that
good a job, but the idea is, we want it to remove most of the
junk first, to give SR the best situation possible to work from.

After the HP uninstaller is finished, your registry will still have
a bit of "this and that" in it. The Restore Point, will put back
the copy of the registry made before the HP install began.

This is a description of what is tracked and not tracked. For
example, if you download via Web Browser and store new files in
My Documents, going back and forth in time in System Restore,
has no effect on the files. If, on the other hand, you have
created C:\Downloads and stored all your web downloads in there, if
you go back in time with SR, todays downloaded files will disappear!
That's why reading this and understanding it, before using SR,
is important.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080219...esfolders.html

If done from the regular running OS, you can go back and forth
in time. If you notice your C:\Downloads is now empty, you can
"return to today", and they'll come back.

If you run system restore from Safe Mode, that's a one-way trip.
If you go back in time, you can't go forward again. There are times
when Safe Mode is your only option, but you'll be a sad panda,
if you weren't aware of the rules, and downloaded files
disappear on you. I was shocked the first time I used SR
and stuff disappears :-) Lesson learned.

*******

On WinXP, the controls for System Restore are in two places. It
takes a couple seconds to figure out where the controls are.

You can see here, Bert is in the process of disabling SR.
When you disable it, it erases the restore points. Then, when
you enable it again, it won't be using any space at that
point in time. Disabling SR right now, would mean having
no registry files to recover.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080219...disablesr.html

Using the menu on that web page, you can find other articles on SR.
The web pages are a bit "cramped", and maybe there's a better
article somewhere else with bigger pictures to look at.

So anyway, the idea is, uninstall the HP software, that removes
most of the stuff like HTML files or stuff with weird extensions
(that SR doesn't track). Then, use SR, the restore points are named,
and go back in time to before the HP software installation. That
will make the registry as minty fresh as it was, before HP got there.

Here, Bert examines his list of restore points, before
selecting one for a "trip back in time", to when the
registry was fresh and clean.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080219...:80/index.html

If you turned that subsystem off, the last time you went to
Bleepingcomputer and had them help you remove malware, then
any chance of registry repair goes out the window. SR is mostly
useless, which is why some of us use full backups before doing
anything else. Right now, I've been working for *days* on a
Win10 Insider problem, and what is saving my ass ? One stinking backup.
Which I restore over and over again, when I find tools I bought,
are crap (Acronis Disk Director, I'm lookin at you). Never underestimate
the ability of a full backup, to make the day seem "really sunny".

I wouldn't do another thing, until I had at least one full backup
under my belt. Of the system as it stands right now. If things
go downhill (as things usually do with computers), that backup
is gonna seem pretty sweet. Take my word for it.

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

HTH,
Paul

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 14:15:58 -0400, wrote:

I have done that in Windows 98 easily, but 98 only has 2 files to copy.
XP has a lot more of them, and google showed me some articles that
explain that XP has what they call "hives". But nothing showed me which
files I need to copy.... Or where....

Can someone please tell me which files to copy and their exact location
(path).

In a related/unrelated sort of way, can I recommend you use

http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABL...ERUNTgui.shtml

All it takes is a click to backup the registry, a click and a
reboot to restore any registry.
Backups are important, but I've found I can fix silly little
problems like a weird mouse or windows that refuse to behave by simply
restoring a registry backup from a week ago. These minor issues don't
warrant restoring a full backup, and are usually caused by installing
buggy software.
(It's just a frontend to ERUNT, and it's portable)
[]'s

PS A full registry backup is typically 20-40 MB
The guy's webpage was removed for "excessive use". Pity. He
had a nifty little phonebook (portable) too..
--
Don't be evil - Google 2004
We have a new policy - Google 2012

On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:32:02 +0100, Shadow wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 14:15:58 -0400, wrote:

I have done that in Windows 98 easily, but 98 only has 2 files to copy.
XP has a lot more of them, and google showed me some articles that
explain that XP has what they call "hives". But nothing showed me which
files I need to copy.... Or where....

Can someone please tell me which files to copy and their exact location
(path).

In a related/unrelated sort of way, can I recommend you use

http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABL...ERUNTgui.shtml

All it takes is a click to backup the registry, a click and a
reboot to restore any registry.
Backups are important, but I've found I can fix silly little
problems like a weird mouse or windows that refuse to behave by simply
restoring a registry backup from a week ago. These minor issues don't
warrant restoring a full backup, and are usually caused by installing
buggy software.
(It's just a frontend to ERUNT, and it's portable)
[]'s

PS A full registry backup is typically 20-40 MB
The guy's webpage was removed for "excessive use". Pity. He
had a nifty little phonebook (portable) too..

This lot have his software (but the "links" to the authors homepage go to ads)
http://www.sharewarejunction.com/Com...aus+Roemer.htm

--
Bah, and indeed, Humbug

On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 00:04:38 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:



(I think there are some files in the root, too.)

As another has said, making an image is better (Acronis and Macrium seem
to be the most popular; I use Macrium because it worked the first time I
tried it so I haven't tried Acronis). I do this with my C: drive, having
moved everything other than Windows, most software, and a _few_ other
things to D: (actually a D: _partition_, this being a netbook with only
room for one drive); this makes C: smaller and thus quicker to image. I
do more or less as you do for D: - just a plain copy; or rather I did, I
use SyncToy now which saves a lot of time, but the result is the same,
just a copy. (I do three on a rotating basis. Ditto for the images of
C:.)

But fair enough, you haven't done this.

Although XP is booting ok, I recently installed a HP "ALL in One"

When you say "XP is booting OK", do you mean after a restore of the
copies you made?

printer/scanner. The software from HP, really screwed up the computer.

IKWYM. Bundled printer/scanner software can really make a mess.
[]
I should mention that this particular computer is never and will never
be connected to the internet. I use it to store a lot of personal files,
photos, music, and videos. I also use it to do some graphic editing. To
protect my data, I have never and will never connect that computer to
the internet.

Provided you make copies, and are reasonably careful to keep any malware
out of the copies, you can let it; I connect this one most of the time
it's on.
[]
I loaded control panel and REMOVE PROGRAMS. I removed all three of the
entries from HP. When I finished, that error thing was gone, but there
was still a lot of HP stuff popping up. The folder called HP (in program
files) was not fully removed, in fact it contained several hundred
files, and a folder called "Bin" which I was not able to delete. There
were two HP files loaded at STARTUP. I finally killed them, but still
could not delete that "Bin" folder.

I shutdown, booted using my Linux flash drive, and deleted everything
remaining in that HP folder and the folder itself.

Revo uninstaller is worth getting (the free version is pretty good).
Does better than most app.s' own uninstaller. (Its default way of
working is to run app.s' own uninstallers anyway, and then do more. I
think it watches the uninstaller to see where and what it removes, then
does a more thorough job if it.)

I rebooted into XP, and XP was once again running normally. Then I
loaded "Reg Seeker". There were 1132 worthless entries in the registry,
ALL but 3 of them were HP related. I removed all of them.

Since you know they were all HP related, I presume you must have looked
at all of them! Very tedious!

Like I said, XP is working fine, but I'd really like to just restore a
registry from BEFORE I installed that f**kling HP garbage. I dont have
"System Restore" enabled, so I cant restore the registry that way. I
just want to restore it from my backup.

I know how you feel; however, I don't know for sure. I'd presume doing
more or less what you did in reverse, i. e. putting files back from a
Linux boot, might work, but I can't give any assurance it would, or even
that it wouldn't break the system )-:.
[]
One other thing.
I still want to use that printer/scanner. (I should mention that I do
NOT intend to use the printer. It has no ink, and I DO NOT need a
printer. I only want to use the scanner part of that machine.

There is no way in hell that I'll run that HP software installer
again....

I know that I do not need the HP editing program. I have an older
version of Photoshop and have Paint Shop Pro. Both of them have a
feature to IMPORT from a scanner.

IrfanView will do that too, and run a lot faster than either of those.

But I DO need the drivers for that printer/scanner. Is there a way to
ONLY install the drivers? Can I download ONLY the drivers somewhere?
The printer is an HP Photosmart C4480.

Assuming HP haven't deleted the XP drivers, then you _should_ be able to
get just those from the HP website (I know how you feel about HP, but I
wouldn't get them from anywhere else). You'll have to do battle with the
site, to (a) find the XP part, (b) make sure you do indeed only get the
drivers, but they should be there somewhere. Hang on, I'll have a look
... Ah. I get to
https://support.hp.com/gb-en/drivers.../model/3655559
, which says "No software or drivers are available for this product with
the selected operating system." But that _might_ be because it's somehow
detected I'm in gb-en land, so you might have more luck. I tried
changing that to us-en, but didn't get anything different. Seems very
mean of them if they have deleted the XP drivers - they include XP in
the drop-down list, and I presume the CD _did_ say it supported XP.

You _may_ be able to extract just the drivers from the CD, possibly by
looking inside ZIP or CAB or INI or ... files.

I really could use some help. Although I know my way around a computer,
I am NOT a techie, so please post in laymens terms.

NOTE: If I had the chance, I'd like to tell HP what I think of their
****ty software, and it would NOT BE NICE!!!



Yea, I used Reg Seeker, and found 1132 entries in my registry, and
looked at every one of them, one page (of about 15) at a time. (Took
hours). All but three were HP related. All were removed. The other 3
were just the usual file extesions that seem to crop up everytime I run
that software and they are extensions that dont exist.

All in all, I bet I spent 5 hours cleaning up this mess.

XP is working fine, so I decided to just leave it as it is. I can see
restoring the registry from a copy is no simple task. Unlike Windows98.
Heck I bet I've copied the two Registry files back from backups at least
30 times over the years and never had a problem.

That's the good news.....

The bad news is that I cant seem to locate any plain drivers. I did find
this file:

HP Photosmart C4480 basic driver for windows.exe
It's 42 megs in size.

I refuse to run it. 42 megs is at lest 41 megs of CRAP. I guess that's
better than the original one that I installed (153 megs).

I *think* that 42meg one came from HP, but I am not sure. I had to use
the computer at the library, cuz my slow dialup service was too damn
slow at home.

I might plug in a spare small HDD and install XP on it, and run that
bugger, just to see what it does, but I dont have lots of spare time and
as they say "time is money". So, I'm getting closer to just tossing this
printer in the trash. It only cost a buck anyhow. And it is 8 years old
(made in 2009). (((which is why there SHOULD be a driver for XP))).

After all, I only wanted to use the scanner, not the printer.

I may be better off just buying a used scanner on ebay that has XP
drivers, and tossing this piece of crap.

One thing I will say, I WILL NOT buy an HP scanner, nor will I ever buy
ANY HP products again. The printer/scanner looks to be made fairly well,
but if their software is so terrible, who needs their ****. I know I
dont.

Just for the heck of it, I did open that 42 meg file called
HP Photosmart C4480 basic driver for windows.exe, using 7-zip.
There is a folder called DRIVERS. It contains sub folders for 32 and 64
bit (I need 32). There is one .SYS file, and several .DLL files.

I extracted them to a flash drive. Put that flash drive in that
computer, plugged the printer in, and went to CONTROL PANEL / PRINTERS
and did ADD A PRINTER. I directed to that folder on the flash drive, and
it refused to use them.

I have to mention, I am not even sure what file extension I should be
using. Anyone know?

There are a lot of CAB files in there too, but that would take hours to
search all of them, and even then, I have no clue what filenames or
extensions to look for.

I know the scanner itself did work, but the software was crap. But at
this point, spending hours and hours of frustration is not my idea of a
good day. Heck, I'm almost willing to just pay the local print shop
$3.95 per scan. It might make my wallet lighter, but at least my nerves
and mental state wont be damaged.

One word of caution to anyone else who reads this:

*** DO NOT BUY HP PRINTERS ***
Their software is horrible and it WILL damage your operating system, or
in the least slow it wayyyyyyy down, and add you to all sorts of spam
lists".

On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 21:32:15 +0100, "Kerr Mudd-John"
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:32:02 +0100, Shadow wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 14:15:58 -0400, wrote:

I have done that in Windows 98 easily, but 98 only has 2 files to copy.
XP has a lot more of them, and google showed me some articles that
explain that XP has what they call "hives". But nothing showed me which
files I need to copy.... Or where....

Can someone please tell me which files to copy and their exact location
(path).

In a related/unrelated sort of way, can I recommend you use

http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABL...ERUNTgui.shtml

All it takes is a click to backup the registry, a click and a
reboot to restore any registry.
Backups are important, but I've found I can fix silly little
problems like a weird mouse or windows that refuse to behave by simply
restoring a registry backup from a week ago. These minor issues don't
warrant restoring a full backup, and are usually caused by installing
buggy software.
(It's just a frontend to ERUNT, and it's portable)
[]'s

PS A full registry backup is typically 20-40 MB
The guy's webpage was removed for "excessive use". Pity. He
had a nifty little phonebook (portable) too..

This lot have his software (but the "links" to the authors homepage go to ads)
http://www.sharewarejunction.com/Com...aus+Roemer.htm

Yes, they are the stuff he had on his original homepage.
Strange they are on a shareware site. They are all freeware, no hidden
adware.
[]'s

PS All the downloads give me a 404. Try Softpedia. Or
Majorgeeks

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/eruntgui.html
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