Backing Up Registry
Sep 5, 2009What is the easist way to backup the registry? Vista 32 bit
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Backing Up The Registry
Sep 20, 2009Microsoft recommends using systempropertiesprotection for backing up the registry. Presumably, this backs up the registry to the hard drive. I think that it might be a good idea to have an external backup as well (CD-R). But how can one obtain this from systempropertiesprotection?
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Sep 7, 2009I have recently backed up the registry (Vista 32 bit). Do I need to keep it on the C Drive, or can I move it to a CD-R?
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Feb 27, 2009WARNING: only for advanced users who like to clean the registry. Quicksys regcleaner normally $25 free - only 4hrs left from here: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
Win 7 compatible - have used this and deleted all 1200 entries it found. It makes a backup - been running for several hours and reboots with no probs. Also working fine so far on my Vista x64 and Win 7 x86 installs. After cleaning you need to shut the app. and reopen it for it to find it's backups. (Easy to find them by hand - it can compress them to.7z files, too ). Have used their regdefrag a lot - identical scans and results to the Auslogics and Glary versions- so use whichever defragger you already have. WARNING: not recommended to defrag registry across drives.
Registry Cleaner, PCTOOLS And It Promptly Wrecked My Registry
May 27, 2009Currently using Vista 64 Home Premimum. Can anyone recommend a good registry cleaner? I tried PCTOOLS and it promptly wrecked my registry.
View 9 Replies View RelatedUniblue Registry Booster And Registry Scans.
Nov 13, 2009I am using this program to clean up my registry and it seems to work fine except the errors keep coming back. I can do a scan, clean up all the errors and then shut down and start up and I have a new 20 registry error list and most or all of the errors relate to "bad path for the value" and its windows files that seem to be at fault. I don't understand why Microsoft operating system would create registry errors on a startup, before anything has been installed etc. is RegistryBooster misleading me or what. I am running win7 but it did the same thing on vista home premium so I think the question is valid for this group.
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Jun 25, 2008i have wasted 54 cd tring to back up my computer. everytime i get to the 17Th cd and put a new cd just to make sue that there is no problem with the cd/s.
i never had this before. the computer well not get done backing up my computer. it just freeze up. then said can not back up your computer. what should i do. i have vista. the computer i have is a t3604 emachines.
Backing Up To An External HD
Nov 8, 2009I have bought a WD external hard drive, and backed up the contents of my family's computers onto it. I was intending to update the back up on a regular basis- will the files get automatically overwritten? I'm assuming so as I can't see how you would remember which files were new.
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Jun 2, 2010I have just finished a back-up of my files as of June 30th, It took 5 DVD's to complete using the "Back Up Program" on my Vista Home Premium, 32 bit start menu. Does this sound reasonable? If it became necessary to restore my files following a hard disc problem, would all my spreadsheets, letters, programs, registry, desk top, etc. be restored to the condition they are now? If not, what would likely be lost? As you see, I am not very knowledgeable concerning computer details.
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May 13, 2009I started using Vista recently, after I bought a laptop with Vista preinstalled. When prompted, I made a Vista recovery disc. So, hopefully, I am protected, if the operating system gets corrupted on my hard drive. Next, I wanted to also back up the rest of my hard drive (data, programs, file structure, etc.) so that if my hard drive got corrupted, I can reinstall Vista using the recovery disc, then reinstall the rest of my data and program files using my hard drive backup copy. To make a hard drive backup copy, I purchased a standalone hard drive with a USB plug. The portable drive is about 50GB bigger than my laptop's hard drive. I then used Vista's Control Panel/System and Maintenance/Backup Your Computer.
This method of backing up my hard drive took ages (several hours) which surprised me, as the entire contents of my hard drive only amounts to 96.5 GB. I later foud out why: Vista had, wile in the process of backing up my hard drive, compressed everything into a lot of roughly-equal-sized zip files. What I am aiming for is a way to reinstall my entire hard drive contents, Vista and all, in a simple, quick way, so that my laptop will be the same as it was before the file corruption occurred.
To achieve this, can I not simply drag-and-drop my laptop's C: drive into the standalone drive? I think that avoiding file compression would also lessen the possibility of data degradation or corruption during the process. I've known image files, in particular, suffer badly from the compression and subsequent decompression. Then, when I want to retore my hard drive, I can simply drag-and-drop the contents of the standalobe drive into "computer" in Vista's file manager, yes?
Backing Up Of Mail Rules
Feb 26, 2009How do I backup/restore mail rules created by me.
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Oct 30, 2009I have a 13Gb image backup which I would like to copy to DVD. Is there a utility which will split this file (and recombine it) into DVD size chunks which I can then copy to disk? Or a DVD burning utility which will do this automatically?
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Feb 6, 2009I'm having problems with a client running Windows Vista backup. Their external backup drive to which Vista is backing up data is filling up. Is there any way to tell Vista to "groom" the data, removing older data to keep the drive afloat? Or, is there way to have Vista completely reset the entire backup set on a regular schedule?
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Jul 29, 2009I have my desktop set up the way I like it and have my icons grouped in different parts of the screen and in an order that I like. Every so often, something happens like an error or booting into safe mode that sends all my icons to be aligned together starting in the upper left of my screen. Then I have to put them back in order. There appears to be some order in which they're realigned, but the order isn't consistent between the groups. How can I create a backup of my desktop display so that I won't have to move every icon back into place manually? Is there a file somewhere that I can copy back into place when this happens?
View 5 Replies View RelatedBacking Up E Mail External Drive Or CD
Oct 9, 2009how to backup my E Mails either on an external drive or a CD
View 9 Replies View RelatedBacking Up Images In Virtual PC 2007
Mar 23, 2008Is there a way to backup Virtual PC 2007 images. In VMWare, its easy enough to copy the image directory and restart on a new computer. Anyone have some simple pointers?
View 7 Replies View RelatedBacking Up Firefox Settings/bookmarks
Jan 15, 2009it seems I'm close to having to do a complete reformat/system recovery. I have just about everything backed up on externals anyway, so it's not the end of the world. My major concern is my firefox settings/bookmarks. Is there a settings file or files that I can back up, and then, when I re-install firefox on the fresh OS, copy those files to the "new" OS so it automatically knows all my settings and bookmarks?
View 6 Replies View RelatedBacking Up Large Program To Disc
May 26, 2008I'm trying to back up a large program to several discs. In XP this was not a problem. It prompted you for the next disc. However in Vista (I have the Home Edition,) I'm told the disc is too small and to either "retry" or "cancel." I can't believe it doesn't do what XP did...I've already saved the program to a removable hard drive but I'd like to back it up to disc anyway. Am I missing something in the control panel? A setting of some kind? Or doest Vista just NOT do that?
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Jun 1, 2008I have a portable USB hard drive. I have it installed and configured, but I can not find how I actually back up my files. The only help I can find on the Windows help site is for Vista.
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Jun 3, 2008I'm using Backup & Restore in Vista Home Premium x64 for easy backups. There are however a couple issues with it.First, is it possible to make Vista backup only individual folders?Second, I have Backup & Restore set to making daily incremental backups of all files (that can be selected in the wizard) on my C drive. Thing is, I have folders with applications in the root of C. E.g. C:Prog1, C:Prog2,etc... I had to retrieve backups a while back. You can only guess when all other files where restored except the .exe files n :Prog1, C:Prog2 and so on. After reading around a bit I found out that B&R doesn't backup executable
files. Any way to get around this.
Backing Up 32bit As Virtual Machine
Feb 8, 2008I will be installing Vista Busieness 64bit on a system with Vista Home Premium 32bit currently installed. I want to convert the current install into a virtual machine (using VMware converter) so I can fallback to that environment from time to time after I install Vista 64bit. Is there anything I should be aware of? I am not 100% clear if I am actually allowed to migrate this install into a VM with the current license agreement.
View 4 Replies View RelatedRegistry: "Access To Registry Key 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.pgk' Is Denied"
Sep 10, 2009"Access to registry key 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.pgk' is denied" Th program runs well on 32 bit vista and XP but I have 64bit and it doesn't work.
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Jun 14, 2009I would like to create a file/files that have my newsgroup settings from Windows Mail, that I can import the next time I have to reinstall Vista. Does Windows Mail make a backup file? I searched the Vista help files but the only thing I saw was the Windows easy transfer wizard---I would like to keep this file in my Documents folder, which I back up to an external drive--Windows won't save the file to the same hard drive like I would prefer. Is there any other way to back up my Windows Mail settings?
I see in Windows Mail, the Tools>Accounts button will give me a new window, which allows me to click Export, which will produce an .iaf file. Is this what I am interested in?
Difficulties Backing Up E-mail To A Flash Drive
Mar 8, 2009I'm trying to help a friend with Windows Vista copy her e-mail storage to a flash drive for backup. I found the location of the storage folder (which is not easy, it's listed under Tools, Options, Advanced). I tried copying the "Local Folders" folder, which is the master folder for all the e-mails, to the flash drive. It began prompting at each e-mail (all 11,000 of them), saying "if you copy this, it will be without the file properties. Proceed?" Copying all the e-mails without their file properties didn't sound like a good idea, so I stopped.
Then I thought of exporting the e-mails instead of copying them. I selected Local Folders in the e-mail program, File, Export, browse for destination. But the Save As dialog that opens only opened to a subfolder of her named personal folder, not to Computer. It was impossible to navigate the Save As dialog to Computer and thence to the flash drive. What kind of Save As dialog opens to a subfolder and refuses to let you navigate up the hierarchy to where you want to get to?
Backing Up Outlook 2003 Custom Settings
Aug 7, 2009This is for XP more than for Vista. I have been using Outlook since as far as I can remember but, there are times that I want to ring its neck or tear it apart limb from limb...I guess is better I don't know who the creator is But I digress... Anyways, back to my original thought. I have been having some issues with Outlook (best to use a new thread for this) so I decided to change to Mozilla Thunderbird but it didn't work like I thought it would (again... new thread). Bottom line is ...I have to go back to Outlook 2003. My pet peeve is that, even though I back up my pst files, eveytime I need to do a clean Outlook 2003 install or simple migration of sorts, I loose my custom settings, rules & alerts, etc, Is there an easy way to back up all these custom settings as well so you can migrate Outlook painlessly? I have done the google 'till my eyes drew blood but all I am getting are mixed solutions or me having to install a 3rd party software...Right now I have 3 e-mail accounts being handled by Outlook, my Office Personal, Company's bulk e-mail and Company's g-mail so I use a lot of custom settings.
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Apr 26, 2008My mother's Documents Folder is about 350MB. Her flash drive is 512 MB. I backed up her Document Folder to her empty flash drive. I then tried to show her how to do the same thing, this time it said that there wasn't enough room on the drive. I don't understand why Vista did not give an option to overwrite the Folder. I then formatted her flash drive and tried backing up again and it worked fine. But then, when I tried to back up again (now that the flash drive had the 350MB folder on it), it again told me that there wasn't enough room and did not give me the option to just overwrite.
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May 19, 2008I created file backups on two removable network hard drives so I can regularly do incremental backups on the alternative disks. I want to keep one disk offsite and switch them regularly. When I try to alternate backup network hard drives the incremental backups fail. Message reads: ???The backup location cannot be found or is not valid.??? How can I regularly make incremental backups to these alternating removable network hard drives?
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Feb 10, 2009when i was backing up...manually. i saw that move was slower than copy. it sound funny but yes,, that true. is it normal. can u tell me ur ideas? on why
View 4 Replies View RelatedHard Drive Failing Warning And To Start Backing Up
Nov 28, 2008vista keeps saying that my harddrive is failing and to start backing up now i had this problem with only vista it was this for almost a year n the drive hasnt failed i used to have the warning turned off i found out how to do it in regedit on some page google brought me too. i just got done formating and i cant find the page any more now im getting the same message agian does anyone know how to turn it off?
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Apr 20, 2008I have a 1 TB external hard drive connected to my network. I would like to back up my laptop and setup automatic backup on a weekly basis to this drive like I have done with my desktop. However, the damned thing keeps asking me for a username and password that I did NOT set up on the computer that has the hard drive connected directly into it. When I use my Windows username and password for the computer the drive is connected to, it tells me it is invalid. So what, exactly, is the password if that isn't it? I have password protection turned OFF on my network, so it shouldn't even ask me for one.
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Mar 3, 2010when exporting to flash drive I am getting an error message saying the directory I am exporting to needs to be empty. I am using a new flash drive; what does the error mean?
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