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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. ******************************** "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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