re: Registry Restore Friday, October 5, 2007 at 7:08 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by sky42 (9 messages posted) Thanx gewg, I usually go with scanreg /fix on the (erroneous) assumption that scanreg /restore might be restoring from a corrupted registry version. Anyway, both methods usually worked OK but I notice most posters usually recommend scanreg /restore. On Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 8:24 am, gewg_ wrote: >|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: re: Registry Restore (gewg_: Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 8:24 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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