How to Restore the Registry in Windows
If you’ve backed up the registry in Windows—either a specific key, maybe an entire hive, or even the whole registry itself—you’ll be happy to know that restoring that backup is very easy. Maybe you’re seeing problems after a registry value or a registry key change you’ve made, or the issue you were trying to correct wasn’t fixed by your recent Windows Registry edit. Either way, you were proactive and backed up the registry just in case something happened. Now you’re being rewarded for thinking ahead! Time Required: Restoring previously backed up registry data in Windows usually only takes a few minutes.
Alternative Registry Restore Method
Instead of Steps 1 & 2 above, you could instead open Registry Editor first and then locate the REG file you want to use to restore the registry from within the program.
Adding information can unintentionally change or delete values and cause components to stop working correctly. If you do not trust the source of this information in [REG file], do not add it to the registry. Are you sure you want to continue?Are you sure you want to add the information in [REG file] to the registry?
The keys and values contained in [REG file] have been successfully added to the registry.Information in [REG file] has been successfully entered into the registry.
At this point, the registry keys contained in the REG file have now been restored or added to the Windows Registry. If you know where the registry keys were located, you can open Registry Editor and verify that the changes were made as you expected. This method might be easier if you already have Registry Editor open for another reason.
