registry

my computer fucked itself the other day so i had to reinstall XP. is there a way to restore my registry to what it was before the fuck up, because i really dont want to wade through all my folders and delete programs by hand only to reinstall them

that's why you have a windows partition and separate partitions for programs, so you can just install them over the old installation for registry matters, but keep the old settings. no deletion or anything.

linux

>>2
actually thats pretty much what i did, but do i still have to reinstall them to get them back into the registry?

>>4
You should have saved registry dumps for the applications you want to keep configuration for.

And this is why a global registry blows. Separate INI files in the application directory or some per-user configuration DIRECTORY (not dot-shit files in ~) is the proper way to do things.

>>4
usually, yes. there are programs though that keep settings etc in files, those should be fine w/o reinstalling. that's why you should download archives w/o shitty windows installer whenever possible.

lol registry