Well, I *always* make a export of the entire registry before I work on it. If I screw up, I can immediately import the original registry back. NEVER reboot a system if you've screwed up the registry.
I'm personally not a fan of the Windows registry - it's one of Microsoft Window's largest failures imho. But then, I'm a UNIX guy, so I prefer having my config files in /etc, my binaries in /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/sbin etc and having human editable text files for conf files.
There's a saying I'll borrow from Harry Potter - never trust anything that you can't see its brains.
Dave
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