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Running Registry Backup from the Windows Repair System Tray Icon
Still_Game:
I've been making a few changes to my notebook recently to try to resolve a few minor problems. This has meant I've been making a registry backup manually before each significant change. I'm running WR v. 3.7.1 Pro incorporating Registry Backup v. 3.3.1. When I click on the WR icon in the system tray and then click on Backup Registry Now, there is a brief glimpse of the RB program before it disappears but no backup is carried out - there is no manual backup set created in the RegBackup folder in C: drive. If I open WR and then create a backup from the Step 5: Backup tab, the registry backup is created as expected. Automatic backups are also created on a daily basis.
I'm running Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1. Registry Backup is set to default to making a full Volume Shadow Copy, only defaulting to the Fallback Method if VSS fails.
Still_Game:
Would someone who's running Windows 7 and has Windows Repair installed mind helping me by trying to run Registry Backup from the shortcut accessible from the icon in the system tray, then check to see if a backup has actually been created? Doesn't seem to work for me......
Thanks!
Boggin:
My WR Pro is upgraded to 3.7.3.
Using Win 7 I've just opened the back up from the icon and it has created a back up which is in Windows(C: )
I think it best before making any changes you make to your system that you should create a system image rather than relying on getting back into your computer should things not go as planned.
If you have two external HDDs you can create each new one alternatively so that the previous one isn't over written should you need to go back to before the last image.
Still_Game:
--- Quote from: Boggin on December 29, 2015, 02:35:48 am ---My WR Pro is upgraded to 3.7.3.
Using Win 7 I've just opened the back up from the icon and it has created a back up which is in Windows(C: )
I think it best before making any changes you make to your system that you should create a system image rather than relying on getting back into your computer should things not go as planned.
If you have two external HDDs you can create each new one alternatively so that the previous one isn't over written should you need to go back to before the last image.
--- End quote ---
Thanks for that, Boggin, I'm on the latest WR Pro as well - strange that my RB works fine except when I try to invoke it from the System Tray. I'll play around some more when I've got time and see if I can find out why the shortcut seems not to work for me. Not a big deal as WR & RB work fine when run from the program.......
I'm with you all the way on the system images - I've used the paid version of Casper for years to create alternate bootable backups of the hard drive in my "mission critical" notebook to a pair of usb drives in enclosures so that if things go wrong I can swap out the hard drive and be up and running again in minutes. No doubt there are other imaging programs as good but it's never let me down and support is excellent.
Happy and safely backed up 2016!
Boggin:
This morning when I tested it, I used Open Registry Backup which is the manual Fallback where you have to hit the Backup Now button.
When I've just tried it again and used the Backup Registry Now option, while it seemed to work, the back up in Windows(C: ) only shows the time stamp of this morning's - so I don't know where it has stored that one.
However, using Open Registry Backup option again, the file hasn't changed its time stamp and I think I've updated Adobe Air since then but not sure if that would have made a difference to the file.
Which option did you use ?
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