Backing Up and Restoring the Registry

In Category: Windows 98

You can backup the registry in one of two ways: From the Command Prompt 1. Boot to Windows98\'s DOS 2. Go to the \\WINDOWS\\COMMAND directory 3. Run SCANREG /backup While within Windows98 1. Run SCANREGW /autoscan Backups are located in the \\Windows\\Sysbckup folder in the RB0xx.CAB file. Where xx is replaced by the different backups. The default setting is to keep 5 versions. See the next section, ScanReg.INI Settings, for how to change several of the default settings. To restore a backup, you need to be in Windows98 DOS. 1. Go to the \\Windows\\Command directory 2. Run SCANREG /restore 3. From here you can select which one you want to restore