Win98Se does backup the registry on each boot-up. You can manually
backup the registry by going to "Start - Programs - Accessories - System
Tools - System Information". Under this utility click on "Tools - Registry
Checker", this will give you the option of backing up your registry
immediately or restoring a previous backup.
The default for the number of Backups that Win98Se does is "5" You can
change this by doing the following:
Find the file "Scanreg.ini" in the Windows directory. Open it and find
the line that says "MaxBackupCopies=5". You can change this to "99" as the
Maximum number that the Registry will be backed up.
You can also use the Win95 Backup Utilities (CFGBACK & ERU). These not
only backup the registry, but also Win.ini, System.ini, Protocol.ini,
Autoexec.bat, Config.sys, MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS, Command.com. They are on the
Win95 CD and do not have to be installed. They are located in the following
directory on the CD "Other\Misc\ - CFGBACK & ERU". They will work on Win98,
98SE and I believe ME (have not checked). These, utilities do work as I
have used them.
Lonnie
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] registry corrupted
Jack R. Payton wrote: "I thought Win98SE had a System Restore program
which gives you the option of restoring your registry to an earlier point
when it was running correctly?"
Hal Trachtenberg commented: "This is only an option in Windows ME. It
never existed in Windows 98 or 98SE. However, one can still restore their
system to an earlier registry by using the scanreg/restore command from
either MS-DOS mode, or if I am not mistaken also from Start/Run, and
typing scanreg/restore. Windows backs up its registry on it's own.
Further comment (Jack R Payton): I'm sure Hal is right, at least up to a
point.
Pre-Win ME versions did have both an auto backup of the registry, and the
scanreg /restore command to restore the registry to the *.bak version of
the registry. <snip> I suggested creating batch files to do a manual backup
of
the registry files (system.dat and user.dat) in a different folder. That
way you would always have a reasonably useful set of registry files.
Doug comments:
Creating batch files is one way, but I use and highly recommend Emergency
Recovery System 9x (ERS9x). After having been burned several times with a
un-recoverable corrupted registry (and backups) I tried ERS9x (shareware)
and now use it on all my machines. It's advantage is that it makes one
copy per day of your registry. Also it can be used to make a copy of your
registry before installing any hardware/software that you fear may have bad
effects on your registry.
Recovery is simple and is performed from a DOS prompt so you don't even
have to be able to get into windows to recover. You can recover from any
one of the several backups that have been made in the past. There are
several other backup frequency options and System file backups that it can
perform but the registry backup is its strong suit.
You can find it and some description at:
http://www.mslm.com/
Doug Simmons
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