Your Windows registry serves as a nerve center for your Windows operating system and maintains information on software and settings.
It is common for things to go awry in the registry making it necessary to perform repairs.
Some symptoms of registry problems include poor performance, error messages, computer crashes and others.
Before you clean your registry, it is critical that you make a backup of your important registry data.
If you are using a registry cleaner software, this will likely be done for you.
If you need to back up your registry manually, that is easy to do as well.
Below you will find instructions on how to backup the Windows registry...
Manual Backup You can manually backup your Windows registry quite easily by following these simple steps: Go to Start -> Run -> and type regedit This will launch the registry editor.
From inside of this, choose File -> Export and select the option to export "All".
Choose your file location and save the registry.
Thats it! Backup With Your Registry Cleaner Most registry cleaners perform a backup automatically prior to modifying the registry.
The software that I use (RegCure) calls it a restore point.
It is possible to restore the registry to a previous state by selecting the "backup" function and choosing which restore point you would like to recover.
Making the backup in the first place is handles automatically when you run the registry cleaner.
Thats all there is to making a registry backup.
A backup of your registry can be very helpful in restoring your computer to a previous condition in the event of problems.
Of course, any software installed or uninstalled after the backup may not work correctly and it is a good idea to use your registry cleaner to scan for errors after restoring from a registry backup.