Windows Registry Editing Tips

Microsoft Windows Registry Editing is a high risk practice which can cause serious damage to your Windows Operating System if not done correctly. Below are tips on Windows Registry Editing.

If you read Microsoft Knowledge Base on Registry editing, you will find the statement

WARNING: Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

As scary as it may seems, actually editing Windows Registry manually using Regedit and Notepad is not that troublesome, and if done correctly can produce positive results that will affect your Windows Operating System.

One of the basic tips on Windows Registry Editing that will certainly get you out of trouble when editing Windows Registy would be to backup everything before doing any editing. This is compulsory because if you mess up something, you can easily restore the previous key.

To backup your registry key using Regedit:

1. Go to start menu
2. Run
3. Type “regedit” without the quote and press enter.
4. Go to menu “Files”.
5. Choose “Export”.
6. Save the backup as .reg files.

export registry

If something went wrong after editing your registry using Regedit, you can easily restore the registy key files that you have backed up using the import feature.

We will be looking into other registry editing tips and tricks in the future at badxp.

However if you feel that editing registry manually using Regedit as troublesome, you can use Registry utility such as Regsweep for registry fixing, optimization and cleaning. Refer to my previous post on Registry cleaning using Regsweep.