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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