Timeline for Should every answer involving registry edits contain a warning to back up the registry?
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| Sep 7, 2016 at 14:51 | vote | accept | bwDraco | ||
| Sep 7, 2016 at 14:46 | comment | added | Ben N |
Thank you for mentioning the correct way to back up the Registry. I would say that attempting to restore from .reg files is actively harmful, as those files don't preserve the ACL information. Also, what looks like one coherent whole (e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) is actually split across several hive files, so you're basically hosed if you want to restore a .reg offline.
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| Sep 7, 2016 at 8:26 | comment | added | Ramhound | ask the multi-million dollar registry cleaner industry lol | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 8:04 | history | edited | Bob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2016 at 8:00 | comment | added | Bob |
@Ramhound Ah, yea. Usually along the vein of "registry cleaners". I mean, if you don't go around deleting random files from C:\Windows\ , why do it from the registry?
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| Sep 7, 2016 at 7:58 | history | edited | Bob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2016 at 7:54 | comment | added | Ramhound | I was just pointing out, that's it's more likely for a program to cause damage, then a manual edit. Seen a great deal of problem programs. | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 7:48 | comment | added | Bob | @Ramhound I think the proposal here is only for answers that involve manually editing the registry, which is far narrower than "any registry change at all". The manual editing is the case my answer was intended to address. | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 7:44 | comment | added | Ramhound | Its worth pointing out the registry is changed countless times when you do any number of changes to your computer, including installing a browser, so the warning would have to be added to virtually every answer on Superuser. Like Bob points out, the registry is not a magically beast, how it works is actually very simply. | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 3:40 | history | answered | Bob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |