re: systems registry data had to be recovered by use of log etc
Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 4:46 pm
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Posted by Ricer46
(23825 messages posted)
Next time mark the check box at the bottom of the screen to preserve spacing.
The procedure makes no sense to me. I would agree with your assessment; however the
one from the repair folder may not produce acceptable results, depends on how old
it is.
In the future, you should look into erunt for making backups of your registry and/or
look into disk imaging software.
On Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 3:00 pm, Jeff wrote:
>Sorry , here is the procedure I was referring to:
>
>Quote:
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>1. Create a new user account with administrative rights on the affected machine.
>Navigate to the affected user's profile directory and copy ntuser.dat to a folder
>named backup on your C: drive.
>
>(example for a user named dave: copy c:\Documents and Settings\dave\ntuser.dat to
>c:\backup)
>
>
>2. Once you have backed up the ntuser.dat file, overwrite it with the one located
>in c:\windows\repair\
>
>(example for a user named dave: copy c:\windows\repair\ntuser.dat to c:\Documents
>and Settings\dave\ )
>
>
>3. Log off the temporary account you have created and login to the affected user
>account and let windows fully load up. This will create a new ntuser.dat file under
>the user's profile.
>
>
>4. Once windows has fully loaded up, log back out of the affected user's account
>and log back into the temporary account you made earlier.
>
>
>5. Copy the ntuser.dat file you backed up earlier to the user's profile directory
>overwriting the new file that was created.
>
>(example for a user named dave: copy c:\backup\ntuser.dat to c:\Documents and Settings\dave\
>)
>
>
>6. Log out of the temporary account and log back into the computer under the affected
>account and see if the problem is fixed.
>
>
>Hope this work for you like it did me.
>
>Unquote.
>
>This process did not make sense to me because after all the manipulation , we are
>replacing the new ntuser.dat with one that presumable had problems. Why not just
>leave the ntuser.dat from the repair folder?
>
>Tks
>
>
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