Thanks for explaining that to me.

Just for my curiousity, would I be able to copy the registry files when
booted up with the Recovery Console? (Not that that's a very convenient way
to do it.)


"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

> The registry hives are in use when logged on, and cannot be copied. You can
> backup the hives by booting into WinPE/BartPE or a parallel Windows
> installation (if available).


"MS Questions" <MSQuestions@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote :

> I'm wondering if I can just manually make copies of the registry files, save
> them to a CD, and then if needed, manually delete the corrupted files and
> just copy the archived ones from CD back to the OS folders?