re: Registry Restore Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 8:24 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |What are the pro's and con's of using "scanreg /fix" vs "scanreg /restore"? | sky42 | SCANREG/FIX assumes you are starting with something broken and does its best to try to repair that broken something. Ideally, the only thing WORSE is the old SYSTEM1ST trick: cache of http://www.pccomputernotes.com/newsletter/093000g.htm SCANREG/RESTORE assumes you still have a pristine copy of something that worked at one time. YOU get to pick the point in time where YOU thought the system was working best. If you manually make Registry backups to (non-default locations), you can extend the utility of this technique even further --beyond the 5-most-recent default. |Don't they both achieve the same result? | In a perfect world--but we are talking about a broken Registry and Windoze. Procrastination being what it is, some people will have retired all their good backups before attempting to correct a known defect. Written in response to: Registry Restore (sky42: Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 4:44 am) Responses to this message: re: Registry Restore (sky42: Friday, October 5, 2007 at 7:08 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Registry Restore (sky42: Thu, Oct 4, 2007, 4:44 am) re: Registry Restore (gewg_: Thu, Oct 4, 2007, 8:24 am) re: Registry Restore (sky42: Fri, Oct 5, 2007, 7:08 am) re: Registry Restore (Joe Hepperle: Fri, Oct 5, 2007, 11:19 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum