Thanks, I lost this message thread in a system reinstall and just found it
today. Sorry for the delayed thank you. Your help was most appreciated.

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> On 2006-10-03, Blue Max <mailrichard@msn.com> wrote:
>> We have a FULL backup of our Windows XP registry, but only need to
>> restore
>> certain keys from that exported backup (i.e., versus the whole registry).
>> Is there anyway to perform this operation?
>>
>> HISTORY: We had to rebuild a corrupt system. In the process we lost all
>> system settings, but did have a recent backup of the registry. Certain
>> applications had specific data saved in the registry which we need to
>> recover. Amongst them was the need to recover a Microsoft Outlook key
>> for
>> the 'Master Category List.' For obvious reasons, we cannot import that
>> full
>> registry backup and overwrite our existing Windows XP registry.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a utility that would allow us to 'Extract' the
>> desired
>> key from our full registry backup and safely import just that desired
>> Outlook key into our current Windows registry? Obviously, this utility
>> would have use in many, many similar circumstances, but we do not see any
>> REGEDIT options for doing anything other than importing the entire
>> exported
>> backup.
>>
>>
>
>
> I haven' tried it myself, but this http://www.mitec.cz/wrr.htm looks
> like it might do the job.