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- | ======Recover registry settings from a dead Windows installation====== | + | [[https://support.pscs.co.uk/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/39/0/recover-registry-settings-from-a-dead-windows-installation-v4-or-earlier]] |
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- | Note that this procedure is only suggested as a last resort. You should be backing up your Windows PCs regularly, including the registry settings. Check that your Backup procedure saves the Windows registry! | + | |
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- | This article applies if you had a VPOP3 installation on a Windows NT based computer (Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 etc, not Windows 95/98/ME) and that computer has died. The disk must still be accessible, but you can't start Windows. | + | |
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- | The instructions for [[move vpop3|moving VPOP3 to a new PC]] describe how to transfer a VPOP3 installation to a new PC, but you have to that you can run RegEdit on the old PC in order to export the settings from the registry. | + | |
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- | This article explains how you can copy the registry settings from the hard disk of the old PC. Note that this really is for advanced users. If you try to do what is described in this article, and get it wrong, you may render the new installation of Windows unusable as well! | + | |
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- | The following instructions are for Windows XP/2003 or later on the new PC. It is possible to do it on Windows NT/2000, but it is much more complicated, | + | |
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- | - Go to **File -> Load Hive** | + | |
- | - Find the ' | + | |
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- | - Export that to a .REG file | + | |
- | - Select **HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\oldsoftware** | + | |
- | - Go to **File -> Unload Hive** | + | |
- | - Open the .REG file into a text editor such as Notepad, and do a search & replace to change ' | + | |
- | - Import the edited .REG file into RegEdit on the new VPOP3 computer, and you should get the settings | + | |
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- | Be careful that the .REG file only contains the **HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PaulSmith** registry key - not any others, or you may stop your new Windows installation from working | + | |
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- | If you wish we can do this for you over a remote connection as part of our [[http:// | + |