why would norton tamper protection prevent import of registry backup
i didnt instal any program during the period of crete backup and import backup but i did do a sfc/scannow
Note i don't have any problems at this moment but just in case that in future i encouter some is good to know what to espect
forgot to mention OS is windows xp sp3 latest updates availeble
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It doesn't prevent it; it just protects it's own registry keys.
so regedit import's the registry but not those of Nis
Norton is correctly doing what it should be doing protecting its own objects, because what if I was able to change those items to cause Norton to stop working, bang, got around the AV. Now Norton is not working.
If malware tried the same to stop Norton then infect the system, users would complain,
Quads
Why are you importing a 99MB registry file?
Be aware that "importing" a registry is not replacing a registry, your just adding the two together and you end up with your old registry plus any changes and additions contained in the imported registry.
If you have registry problems, you end up with the same problems and a lot of added junk on top of it.
Dave
DaveH wrote:Why are you importing a 99MB registry file?
Be aware that "importing" a registry is not replacing a registry, your just adding the two together and you end up with your old registry plus any changes and additions contained in the imported registry.
If you have registry problems, you end up with the same problems and a lot of added junk on top of it.
Dave
then why before any alteration done to registry ppl recommend to export the registry as back up so if something goes wrong u just imported back to undo the harm you have done?
I know that advice is given a lot but I would never apply it to the entire registry.
For registy keys and small branches you can do that, I do that myself.
But I would never do that for the entire registry for the reasons I gave. Your also likely to run into problems with certain registry entries that have special permissions. Some programs and Windows activation uses certain keys that are not easily accessed by even an administrator account.
System restore will replace the registry files with previous ones that have been backed up but I have system restore for a couple reasons.
It never seems to work when you need it the most, and it replaces more than just the registry. That last reason could be good or bad depending on why your doing a system restore but I always wished it gave you an option to just replace the registry.
Either way be aware that replacing your registry or using system restore will break your Norton product causing you to uninstall and re-install it and as you found you will not be able to do a system restore until you uncheck the setting for "Norton product protection".
Better ways to do it is using a registry backup program like ERUNT (thats what I use in XP).
Or learning what the registry hives are, where they are stored, and how to switch them outside of windows if necessary.
Rather than using system restore I prefer to gain access to the system volume information folder and manually switch the files outside of windows, from a dual boot or bootable CD.
I'm assuming you were trying to restore the entire registry because 99MB is huge. Thats over a hundred million charactures and that pretty darn big for a .reg file.
Of course, even better than backing up the system registry is backing up the entire system with an imaging program like Ghost.
Dave
ok thanks for the advice after all if u never ask u will never learn 
Thats what we are here for. :)