registry restore wizard for vista?

[Galdorf]

Is there a registry restore wizard that work with vista? i need an older registry stored in the system restore.

 

[iisjman07]

This post might help. There's also the tool 'Registry Restore Wizard' on UBCD4WIN, afaik it would work on vista. If it doesn't you could always run it from UBCD4WIN or slave the drive on an XP machine. Alternatively you could use a linux boot cd to manually copy the restore points out of system restore.

 

[AtYourService]

I havent done this yet but this is the only reference I can find on corrupt Vista registry recovery

There are backup copies of the registry in the
\windows\system32\config\regback folder
You can try replacing the ones in the config folder with the ones from the
regback folder.
Rename the ones in the \windows\system32\config folder first
Change directory so you are in the \windows\system32 folder
ren system system.bak
ren software software.bak
ren sam sam.bak
ren security security.bak

Then
copy c:\windows\system32\config\regback\system
copy c:\windows\system32\config\regback\software
copy c:\windows\system32\config\regback\sam
copy c:\windows\system32\config\regback\security

or

·         Boot from Vista DVD
·         Get in to WINRE
·         Open command prompt
·         Enter the following commands to fix the issue.
C:
cd windows\system32\config
C:\windows\system32\config>ren default default.old
C:\windows\system32\config>ren sam sam.old
C:\windows\system32\config>ren security security.old
C:\windows\system32\config>ren software software.old
C:\windows\system32\config>ren system system.old
 
C:\windows\system32\config>cd regback
 
C:\windows\system32\config\regback>copy default c:\windows\system32\config
C:\windows\system32\config\regback>copy sam c:\windows\system32\config
C:\windows\system32\config\regback>copy security c:\windows\system32\config
C:\windows\system32\config\regback>copy software c:\windows\system32\config
C:\windows\system32\config\regback>copy system c:\windows\system32\config

let me know if it works for you on Vista I might add this to my tool if it works

 

[studiot]

AYS

Yes this method can be achieved once you have wrested ownership from the trusted installer account.

I have not managed to achieve it using XP as the controlling OS however, only Vista / 7 or a boot disk.

Unfortunately this copy is not a system restore copy, it's the one used for 'last known good' so has no more effect than booting with F8 and selecting that option.

 

[MobileTechie]

Is that right - only the same as last good config? I've used this successfully by doing it from a linux CD. I'm hoping I tried last known good before I went to all that effort!

 

[MobileTechie]

Re: the OP - is there any reason you cannot use system restore?

 

[Galdorf]

Re: the OP - is there any reason you cannot use system restore?

For some reason it says there are no restore points ,i know for a fact there are but in vista it never seems to work from the startup repair menu.

Also the vista license sticker on the bottom of the laptop is worn so bad you can't make out a single character ms should laminate those things.

 

[studiot]

For some reason it says there are no restore points ,i know for a fact there are but in vista it never seems to work from the startup repair menu.

Also the vista license sticker on the bottom of the laptop is worn so bad you can't make out a single character ms should laminate those things.

I agree with both those

 

[AtYourService]

you can slave the drive or use a winPE disk and use my GetKey app to recover the key </spam>


Yea I havent had a Vista machine in yet with a bad registry yet to test this and microsoft doesnt have any info on doing this for vista like they did for XP

 

[@ncient geek]

AYS

Yes this method can be achieved once you have wrested ownership from the trusted installer account.

I have not managed to achieve it using XP as the controlling OS however, only Vista / 7 or a boot disk.

Unfortunately this copy is not a system restore copy, it's the one used for 'last known good' so has no more effect than booting with F8 and selecting that option.

Vista has quite a lot of difficulties with restore points. In fact, the restore point function from Vista repair usually works only if at least one manual restore point has been set in the computers past. You can easily try this out
In addition, it is quite important to note that booting a windows vista system from anything earlyer than WinRE 2.0, and that means ALL flavors of WinPE, Bart, UBCD4WIN etc, will lose your vista restore points definately !
Contrary of what has been published regarding this problem, the SP2 doesn't solve this.