How to Backup Registry Files on Your Computer

Backing up your registry files can be extremely important when dealing with modifications to your registry. Why would someone want to tamper with these files if by doing so can mess up your precious computer, well it's the same as people who shorten computer part's lifespan by overclocking, to gain better and faster performance. By backing up or saving these registry files before modifying the registries content you insure all the changes to your system can be reversed in case your computer doesn't work the way it did before you started modifying the registry. Another reason to back up these files is to protect the registry from viruses and such. Some viruses and spyware add files to your registry making these harmful programs launch at startup making you wonder "what's wrong with my computer". By backing up your registry files when they aren't infected with viruses you can make sure these viruses will be gone from your system by using a virus removal program and then importing your backed up registry.

To begin with your mouse click on the start button and then click on run. When this little box appears type in the word regedit and click on ok. The registry window will appear so from here all you do is click on file and then click export. Now just rename the file to your liking and find a place to save this file to and click save. Now anytime you tamper with your registry files and find out the you chose are affecting your system's performance simply follow these next steps.

First, click on the start button and from here click on run. Next, type regedit inside of this box and a new window will appear. Then, click on file located at the top left hand corner choosing to import. Finally, locate the file name of your backed up registry and click on open and your finished. Now your registry will be back to the settings at which you last backed up this registry. By backing up your registry files you ensure that at any time if your registry files are modified or changed without your doing or knowing you can just import your original registry file and your settings will be back just like that. These precautions can save you a lot of trouble on down the road if you take just a few minutes to make a copy of these files as opposed to spending hours reinstalling your operating system as well as the programs you use.