Good day,
I have recently backed up the registry I have and run "Windows Line OneCare Safety Scanner - Beta version for Win Vista". The application fixed many problems I was facing due to some irrelevant Registry entries. However, it ruined "Windows Media Player 11" so now it doesn't open.
Since I have Win Vista Ultimate and WMP11 comes as an integral part of it (i couldn't be uninstalled and re-installed again).
I tried to uninstall and re-install the cumulative update package for WMP11 from Microsoft but this didn't fix the problem.
I'm sure that the problem is due to the registry because when I double clicked the back-up-registry file, it exported iself to the new registry and WMP worked again, however all the previous problems related to the old registry re-appeared.
So, I did a "System Restore" to revert to the new registry (without WMP working).
My Question Is: Is there a way to export only the section related to WMP from the old registry to the new one (Knowing that when I tried to locate WMP-related entries by opening the back-up -registry file with MS word, it exceeded 32000 pages wihout having the whole registry loaded and MS words found more than 300 "media player" words in the document.
In other words, how can I open the old registry file with Reg Editor and Export the WMP section to the new registry? How? (by Run ---> Regedit, the new registry opens by default).
Please explain your suggested solution in a simple step-wise manner since I'm not a computer wiz.
Thanks in advance...
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I decided to go back to the old registry where WMP was working. Regarding the other problems related to some entries in the old registry, I'll attend to them manually one at a time.
Thanks for the experts efforts trying to help me.
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by: sarangk_14Posted on 2007-11-24 at 01:41:04ID: 20342221
You can open a registry file using a a simple text editor like notepad, search through the old registry and remove any information that you do not want to export to your new registry (I'll suggest you do these things at the hive level). Then simply save the file as a .REG file. this reg file can now be merged into your new registry.
I hope this helps.