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---------------------------------------------------------- a way to Truly backup the Windows Registry By Stephen Bucaro In Windows three. X configuration info was stored in human readable text files like win. But that system of storing configuration was insufficient to store configuration for the giant quantity of bloat Microsoft put into Windows 95 and higher.

In Windows 95 and higher, configuration info is stored in the "registry". To make your own backup of the registry, start your system with your startup floppy disk. ( if you are unable to find your startup disk, use the Add / Remove application in Control Panel to make a new one. In those days way back we were awfully cocky, and very innocent - how hard could it be to line up a new TCP / IP network? In fact, we had mastered DECnet and Appletalk, could IP be any harder? We shortly learned the mistake of our tactics - TCP / IP is much more complicated than we had originally assumed.

As our company grew this scheme started to get more clumsy. Originally we had a pleasant, isolated, self-contained network, but now we wished to get on the web, we were adding not only new workstations and servers at an angry rate, but we had to cope with PDAs, handheld systems, standalone file servers and masses of other PCs. But what if your system crashed so that it can't even start in Safe Mode? Then you cannot use any of those Windows programs to restore the registry.

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