backing up "services" via registry

17 Jun 2009 7:03 AM

TELUS NEWS

hi folks,

i'm using an older win2k server box as an audio workstation; in setting it
up, i've nuke a whole lot of unnecessry SERVICES, which is an arduous
time-consuming task.

in case i must re-insatll win2k (server), is there any branch of the
registry I can export which would "save" my tweaked SERVICES settings, so i
could re-import after an OS re-install/

thanks for any pointers..

Gary

17 Jun 2009 8:13 AM

Pegasus [MVP]

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> hi folks,
>
> i'm using an older win2k server box as an audio workstation; in setting it
> up, i've nuke a whole lot of unnecessry SERVICES, which is an arduous
> time-consuming task.
>
> in case i must re-insatll win2k (server), is there any branch of the
> registry I can export which would "save" my tweaked SERVICES settings, so
> i
> could re-import after an OS re-install/
>
> thanks for any pointers..
>
> Gary

You could back up the whole System registry file. Alternatively you could
back up this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services. In
either case you will face th problem of merging the backed up data with the
new data. A far safer method would be to disable the unwanted services than
to "nuke" them. The effect is the same.