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Old 01-04-2007, 02:29 AM
Blue Max
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Re: Restoring only ONE key from a FULL registry backup?

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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"LittleMoo" <LittleMoo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7F2461D9-4909-403B-873A-DDC528505FD4@microsoft.com...
> If you know what key you are looking for then you can do this:
> right click on desktop -> new text document. Name it whatever (ex.
> outlook)
> and replace the .txt on the end with .reg. Hit enter.
> right click on outlook.reg -> Edit
> right click on the full registry backup file -> Edit
> copy the first line from the full backup file to outlook.reg (should look
> like "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00" without the quotes)
> Press enter twice in outlook.reg
> In the full backup file do a Edit -> Find and search for the key you are
> looking for
>
> For Example here is my part of my ThemeManager entry:
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\ThemeManager]
> "WCreatedUser"="1"
> "LoadedBefore"="1"
> "ThemeActive"="1"
> "LastUserLangID"="1033"
>
> Once this is found select from the [ before the key to the blank space
> before the next key (right after the "LastUserLang...")
> Do an Edit -> Copy
> Bring up your outlook.reg file, and make sure that the cursor is 2 lines
> below the Windows Registry Editor... line
> Do an Edit -> Paste
> Do File -> Save
>
> From here your file should look something like:
>
> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\ThemeManager]
> "WCreatedUser"="1"
> "LoadedBefore"="1"
> "ThemeActive"="1"
> "LastUserLangID"="1033"
>
> Close your backup file and the outlook.reg file.
> Double click the outlook.reg file and choose yes to add it to the Registry
>
>
> This is the long and tedious way of doing this, but I don't know if there
> is
> any software out there that can automate this process.
>
> -Dan



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