What You Need To Know About Backing Up The Windows Vista Registry

Registry Backup, Registry Problems, Windows Vista

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Just like the previous OS in the Microsoft windows OS family, the registry is the core element in the windows vista as well, that needs to be safeguarded from the threats caused by the invalid, wrong and malicious registry entries. Backing up periodically is the best way to protect your windows vista registry. But the truth is there is no such tool available in the windows vista that does this automatically for you. So there is a need for one such tool to ultimately protect and safeguard your registry! Or you can also do it manually without any third party tools. Let’s discuss how to manually back up windows vista registry.

Manually backing up windows vista registry:

1. This is done with the help of system’s registry editor utility that comes with every operating system. This tool lets you manually edit and even backup a portion of registry. To do a backup, click on start button > Run > type regedit > File menu > Export > Enter file name > select the required Export range – partial, specific or complete backup > save the file.
2. You can also use system restore tool which is available in windows vista. Restoring is enabled on default once your PC meets all its required specifications. This lets to take your computer back in time, like a time machine, to the latest known working condition. This is helpful when the system fails. This is another way to manually backup and restore your registry in which that, you can only backup the registry wholly and any changes that made after that time you decided to travel back is not available to the registry. That is the only pitfall of this method. Using the system restore, if you are a technical person, you can get into where the system restore saves its file and then find where the registry is saved and take a copy for backup, although this is only recommended for advanced users.
3. If you have a windows vista Enterprise or ultimate or business version of the OS, there is a utility called “Windows Complete Backup and Restore”. This like the method 2 will only take a full backup and there is no way to partially backup.

Automatically backing up windows vista registry:

You can do this with a registry cleaner tool. There are many registry cleaner tools available in the internet that will let you backup your registry automatically. But make sure you invest in a commercial registry cleaner to get the most of it. Commercial tool will have a sophisticated one-click automatic registry backup feature that lets you backup before each scan or just whenever you want it. You can also schedule the backup just like scheduling the scanning. You can do all kinds of backup with a registry cleaner tool – partial or whole without any hassles!

So I recommend you to schedule the backup regularly or do it periodically.  When you do that don’t just save a copy of the backup file to your hard disk drive alone, but also a copy in USB drive and another copy in external Hard disk drive like I do! Make sure you have multiple copies so that if one copy gets lost or corrupted, you can always use another one.