How To Backup And Restore Registry In Windows 7
7Learn how to backup your registry and how to restore your registry from the backup in this tutorial.
On Windows computer, the Registry is a hierarchical database designed to store low-level settings and configurations for both the Windows Operating System and any and all programs and applications that choose to make use of the Registry. A wide variety of different settings for everything from a Windows computer’s User Interface and device drivers to the kernel itself and the applications and programs installed are all stored within the Registry. All iterations of the Windows Operating System from Windows XP all the way up to Windows 10 have a Registry.
Backing up the Windows Registry, before you make any changes, is an incredibly smart thing to do. The settings in the registry control much of what goes on in Windows, so having it working correctly at all times is important.
It's too bad Microsoft didn't design Registry Editor to prompt you to back up before you make changes - they really should have.
Fortunately, it's very easy to manually export either the entire registry at once or even just a specific registry key if you're only making changes to a few values or keys.
Before working in the Windows Registry, it is always a good idea to back it up first, so that you have the option of restoration, should something go wrong. This tutorial shows the different ways to backup and restore the Windows Registry or its Hives.
Windows 10/8/7 includes a scheduled task that creates backups of the Windows Registry regularly when the system is idle. These backups are placed in the following location,which is used in the System Restore operation:
Once backed up, you should feel comfortable that nearly any change, so long as it was made within the scope of the backup you made, can easily be undone.
Apart from being one of the most fragile and sensitive parts of the Windows Operating System, the Registry also happens to be one of the most important ones. That being the case, it is always a good idea to back a computer’s Registry up every once in a while so that you lose absolutely nothing in the event that the Registry gets wiped or becomes corrupted. If you back up a Windows computer’s Registry, you can later use the backup file created as a result of the procedure to restore the computer’s Registry to the exact same state it was in when the backup was created, all settings, configurations, registry values and registry keys included.
It is an especially good idea to back up a computer’s Registry before you make any changes to it (either manually or using an application or program capable of doing so) so that, if anything goes wrong, you can simply restore the Registry back to the way it was before you fiddled with it using the backup file.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).