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3 Methods to Restore Windows 10 Registry Without Backup
Handy Registry restoration tips for Windows OS
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Updated onMarch 27, 2024
updated onMarch 27, 2024
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The Windows Registry has low-level settings that run your entire system. However, you risk breaking the operating system when you edit values or keys in the Registry. If this happens, your only option is to restore Windows 10 Registry without backup.
You have to restore without backup because Windows 10 stopped automatically backing up the system registry sinceversion 1803. So, you’d notice that the system32regback folder is empty.
You can still restore the Windows registry without a backup, so don’t be concerned. In this post, we’ll go through various techniques you may use to convert the Registry without a backup.
Does Windows 10 have a backup registry?
There is not an automatically backed-up Registry on Windows 10, but you can and, in most cases, should create a backup to your Registry before changing its values.
You have to export the Registry to its current location before effecting the changes, and this exported data will serve as a Registry backup when needed.
As we said, you will need to export Registry data to create a backup; the inverse is the case for data restoration. You should import the exported data, and you are good to go.
Some of our readers asked how to reset Registry in Windows 10 but the key word here is to restore, or to fix, not to reset.
The only way how to reset regedit to default is by performing a PC reset which is not preferable and it’s one of the last resort solutions.
It doesn’t really reset the Registry but reverts any changes made from the time the chosen restore point was created.
So, if your aim while performing a System Restore is to reset the Registry due to a particular change, we recommend either choosing a restore point created before the concerned change was made or factory resetting Windows.
How can I restore the Windows 10 registry without backup?
1. Restore Registry manually on Windows 10
2. Use the Task Scheduler
This procedure triggers the task to run and back up the Windows 10 registry. It overwrites any older backups in the RegBack folder.
3. Restore Registry in Windows 10 without backup using CMD
On closing Command Prompt, your machine will restart and generate a backup. It would help if you had successfully been able to restore Registry in Windows 10 to default using the cmd prompt.
How to restore the Registry without backup on Windows 11?
On closing Command Prompt, your machine will restart and generate a backup. This process is very similar to Windows 10 except for minor UI changes in the Settings app.
How do I know if my Registry is corrupted?
After running the command, the SFC software will notify you whether it discovered or fixed any corrupt files.
This makes the application a valuable tool for determining if any registry items on your computer are damaged.
You must run the script below on a Command prompt with elevated privileges:
sfc /scannow
Note that using this tool may take as much as 30 minutes as it has to crawl through your entire drive.
Does restoring Registry delete files?
It depends on how you restore the Registry. If you go with the System Restore, the files stored on the computer won’t be affected.
While if you reset the OS to restore the Registry, you are bound to lose the programs, files, and configured settings on the PC. There’s a third and simpler way, restore the Registry using a dedicated backup, which wouldn’t affect the unconcerned parts of the OS.
In this article, we have shown you how to restore the Registry to default.
After performing these operations, you would have learned how to restore Windows 10 and 11 Registry without backups.
This guide also shows you how to enable the backing up of the Windows 10 registry. If you cannot restore the Windows registry using these solutions, let us know with a comment below.
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Radu Tyrsina
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