Windows 10 Registry Question

Ive made quite a few manual entries and changes to my registry in windows 10, is there a way to backup the changes and entries i have made so if i was to reinstall windows i can manually import those settings into the registry again?

Thanks.

An example would be to this i manually added entries to change the icons of all my drives in my computer.

Edited by JimKirk363 (Mon 25-Jan-21 22:56:36)

An example would be to this i manually added entries to change the icons of all my drives in my computer.

Open regedit, in the left hand sidebar click on the item you wish to save, go to File > Export then choose a suitable name and location.

To load the data, regedit then File > Import.

Repeat for all of the bespoke entries you wish to save.

If you click on Computer at the top of the left hand sidebar then File > Export it saves the whole configuration in a single file. This can be a large file. My current backup is ~450MB.

Edited by GonePostal (Tue 26-Jan-21 00:19:08)

Thanks for this, it will save me a whole lot of work if i ever need to reinstall Windows in the future.

Depends how many you've got to add, but you can use REG ADD in a batch file, or even REGEDIT in a batch file from the export file that was suggested below

Edited by fredfox (Thu 28-Jan-21 15:31:16)