ERUNT - The
Emergency Recovery Utility NT
This little tool promises to back up the entire Windows XP registry.
This would be extremely handy to have so you could backup the registry
just before a software install or a Windows Update. It's supposed to allow
you to restore these backups when you need them and even when Windows
won't boot.
I would have liked to have tried this one myself but I'm running
Windows ME. I'm telling you about it because I feel it could be a good
tool for the smart Windows XP users out there. Please let me know
if you try it and how you felt about it.
Quote from the website - In Windows NT and 2000, the registry is
never backed up automatically, and in XP it is backed up only as part of
the bloated and resource hogging System Restore program which cannot even
be used for a "restore" should a corrupted registry prevent Windows from
booting. It has also become impossible to copy the necessary files, now
called "hives" and usually named DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE,SYSTEM
in the SYSTEM32\CONFIG folder, to another location because they are all in
use by the OS.
In 2001, as Windows XP began to come pre-installed on many new
homeuser PCs and was likely to become the new Windows standard over the
next years, I decided to write a program which offers the ease-of-use of
Windows 9x/Me ERU by Microsoft (hence the name ERUNT) to backup the
registry, as well as providing an auto-backup capability, for example at
Windows startup.