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restore registry doesn't work if grub2 bootloader installed
Elwood:
--- Quote from: Shane on October 28, 2013, 03:56:08 pm ---Lots of bug fixes in 1.6.7 since 1.6.1. SO make sure to always use the newest :-)
The restore code works by doing 2 things. When you do the restore from the program itself it uses the Windows API to load the reg files and for the user profiles registry files it uses the pending move at startup command.
Shane
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Tried the new version and it still doesn't restore the registry. I let it make an auto backup then used CCleaner to remove a couple of unimportant but erroneous entries, rebooted again, then checked with CCleaner to make sure the erroneous entries were still not present, then tried restoring from within Registry Backup and when I rebooted the registry entries were still gone.
Before I installed Fedora 19 along with Grub2, this wouldn't have been the case.
I don't know why it's not working, all I know is that it isn't.
Shane:
I am not sure why fedora or grub 2 would have anything to do with it. Is the registry files still in the default location?
Restoring the main system registry hives from the program are done by this API in Windows
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724913%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
And when the program does that it tells the API to name the old hives with .old on them in the same folder as the registry.
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"
So if you see .old files in there then it should be working. Possible reason it may not be working is if the program cant get rid of any previous .old files, or if something is wrong with the API call.
Shane
Elwood:
No .old files in that location.
I don't know how or where to move registry hives, so they must be in the default location.
It's a fresh install of XP SP3 and all known updates so everything api-wise should be like new.
Shane:
I am at a loss on that one as well since the program is calling the Windows API. Only thing I can think of is that the API will not except reg backups that are on a network drive, I think it should be fine if they are on a different drive though, where do you have them saving to?
Also here are a couple of other ways to restore.
http://www.tweaking.com/articles/pages/tweaking_com_registry_backup_online_help,3.html
Shane
Elwood:
--- Quote from: Shane on October 29, 2013, 04:37:32 pm ---I am at a loss on that one as well since the program is calling the Windows API. Only thing I can think of is that the API will not except reg backups that are on a network drive, I think it should be fine if they are on a different drive though, where do you have them saving to?
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I've created a folder E:\RegBackup where I store my backups. It's on the same physical hard drive with Windows (C:\), but it's a separate (logical) partition.
--- Quote from: Shane on October 29, 2013, 04:37:32 pm ---Also here are a couple of other ways to restore.
http://www.tweaking.com/articles/pages/tweaking_com_registry_backup_online_help,3.html
Shane
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Thanks, but I'm very low on bandwidth left for the month. I'll watch the videos when I get my next allotment (22 days), but I'll stick with Erunt for the time being. At one time I had it set up just right, but since using your program, I've forgotten how to get it to work the way I want it to. I'm getting old, forget how to do stuff real quick these days. I know it has to do with a .ini file, but can't get it right.
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