How to restore deleted registry keys windows xp

The CD installation for windows XP allows you to repair Windows whenever there are files missing, corrupted or improper function of Windows. These tips can be useful before you opt for a complete format to your computer.

Your first step is to boot the computer using the cd installation. Press Enter to setup Windows and accept the license agreement.

Then select the XP installation you want to repair and then press R. Windows xp will copy necessary files before reboot. You will be asked to press any key to boot from the CD. Do not press any key. Windows will boot to installation screen automatically and start installation.

After installation , enter the CD key if asked windows registration key to finish repair. Previous Next. Kousik Adhikary. Use the System Restore feature. And see if that helps. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

In reply to Kousik Adhikary's post on December 24, Additional info: I never create or let the system to create a restore point. Just give me the contents of the above registry key. I know what to do afterwards. Frederik Long. There are no guarantees, though.

If you don't act quickly after deleting a setting then there's a chance it may be overwritten by some other value, and that's what has probably happened here. Confirm that you really are looking in the right area of the Registry, and if so then you'll need to look at some other possibility for recovery. System Restore will restore your entire Registry back to a previous version, for instance, and if you've a full system backup then that may also help. If yaru managed to find your lost settings, though, then you'll need to export these in a format which can re-imported into your current Registry.

And that only takes a moment. Just right-click the top-level lost key and choose the appropriate export option, which will probably be "Export keys to file [Recursive]"; this means export everything beneath this level to a Registry file. And save the results to a file called "recover. With that done, now find and double-click the file you've just saved. Windows will warn you that setting a block of Registry keys in this way can be dangerous.