Windows 98 restore command

Search Microsoft Support. Use the Registry Editor program Regedit. For information about how to do this, see article in the Microsoft knowledge base. For information about backing up the registry, see article in the Microsoft knowledge base.

An easy way to back up the registry before you do any editing is to copy the user. This is document aifl in the Knowledge Base. Last modified on Skip to: content search login.

Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. LeftyB 2 Bronze. I have restored the registry previously and at this point do not know what to do. I downloaded a new version today. Using windows 98Se on an Optiplex GX All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies 7. Hi, You probably just have your path file location incorrect.

If you still cannot get into Windows When you receive notification that you restored a properly working registry, press ENTER to restart your computer. Hope this helps and good luck. Jim McNamara. Learning more than I really want to know. LeftyB, Learning more that you even want to know You can never know enough where computers are concerned. Another of those enhancements which should make using Windows 98 more user friendly is the ScanReg Registry Checker. Each day, after a successful boot, a backup copy of your registry is created containing the System.

By default Windows 98 allows you to keep up to 5 copies rb???. When Windows notices a problem with your registry, it will automatically replace the registry with a backup copy. The good thing about this new feature is that you can easily restore a previous registry "by hand":. ScanReg needs KB or more conventional memory, depending on the size of the registry and the amount of damage. To increase the amount of free conventional memory, restart your computer, press and hold down the Ctrl key until the Windows 98 Startup menu appears, and then choose Safe mode command prompt only.

Then, run Scanreg. Now for those of us who regularly install Shareware programs, only to find after a day that the don't bring what we expected, this is a great way to keep the registry clean.