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Hello,
How do you start ERU? I've never heard of it before and would like to
take advantage of this capability.
Thanks, Ray Parrish
Don Penlington wrote:
> You are right Anna. I've since located the registry section at :
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services.
>
> Exporting and replacing that section and rebooting does the trick of
> backing up and restoring your Service settings.
>
> Using ERU is an option, but is overkill for just saving Service
> settings. Restoring the entire registry may, as you point out, have
> unwanted side effects, although it's an excellent way to restore
> sagging performance in general and will fix many glitches. I much
> prefer it to System Restore, as it's far more efficient than any
> registry cleaner can possibly be.
>
> And, no, ERU doesn't leave remnants of old uninstalled progs behind,
> as ERU completely replaces the entire registry.
>
> On the other hand, simply backing up the registry manually to a .reg
> file is NOT a good way to backup the registry for general purposes.
> Restoring a .reg file simply merges or combines the contents of the
> .reg file into the existing registry, so that you end up with more,
> not less.
>
> Don Penlington
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