Restore registery from cab?

[TopHat2]

Using Windows 98 SE.

What gives with scanreg.exe? I regularly backup *.cab files in the SYSBCKUP directory, on the theory that I can use scanreg.exe to restore them if needs be. Tonight for the first time I needed to do just that.

I renamed one of my backuped cab files to rb000.cab, but it did not show up in the scanreg dialogue. After a number of attempts I now have three rb005.cab files showing in the restore dialogue, but still can’t see my rb000.cab file!!!

What new form of torture have Micro$oft implemented in scanreg.exe, and how can I restore the registery files from my cab under DOS?

 

[wolluf]

If you've still got access to windows, I'd extract the files from the cab file to for example \windows\temp - remove any hidden/system/read only attributes (winzip will do this or you can use the extract dos command). Then boot to dos prompt and copy them to \windows folder, overwriting system.ini, system.dat, win.ini & user.dat (so you might want to back those up first).

 

[TopHat2]

Thanks Wolluf. I would still like to know how scanreg.exe desides which files it is going to display in the restore dialogue. I had assumed it would display any cab file in the SYSBCKUP directory starting with "rb" and followed by three digets, but this does not seem to be the case.

 

[Crustyoldbloke]

Generally speaking, if I needed to revert to a good registry, due to problems, I would run scanreg /restore from DOS. This should give up to 5 previous versions saved by Windoze. I woud then choose the one I want and run it.

You may deal with this problem differently, but I think that my method is simpler. Regards
Phil

 

[TopHat2]

I AM running scanreg from DOS. What I want to do is restore a cab file that I saved as "copy (A) of rb004.cab" I thought that renaming it to "rb000.cab" should allow me to restore it via scanreg, but this does not seem to work, and I want to know why?

 

[wolluf]

TopHat2,

Don't know if this

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=183887

and links on there will be of any help fathoming scanreg! I must admit, I would have thought your renaming method would have worked. Perhaps you need to change date/time attributes of your renamed cab file. Have you tried moving all the other rb.cab files elsewhere and just leaving your file in place? (presume windows must keep a 'database' of these cab files somewhere).