Comments on: How to Restore the Registry Hives From a System Restore Snapshot in Windows XP

By: Tony Backhausen

Tony Backhausen — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:38:34 +0000

Problem with ERD Commander. When I try to rename the five reg hives you mention (System, etc.) to .bak I get this message – “the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.’ I cannot proceed.
(ERD 2007, Win XP SP3.)

By: How to Restore Previous Versions of the Registry in Windows 7 - How-To Geek

How to Restore Previous Versions of the Registry in Windows 7 - How-To Geek — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:01:10 +0000

[...] This article was jointly written by myself and Ramesh from WinHelpOnline, who has also covered how to do the same thing on Windows XP. [...]

By: Happy Camper

Happy Camper — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:45:14 +0000

I’ve done this before with restoring the original fresh install registry but never thought about using the system restore regs. I restored the system side and was back up and running.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:12:30 +0000

good very good save me a lot a trouble nice work the best solution to this type of trouble