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The quickest is to create a "System Restore Point".
Find out how to do this by searching the Microsoft Help for "System Restore Point" which should be somewhere on your Start menu (or the Vista equivalent).
One of the many sites which describe backing up the Registry by various methods is below. I'd treat this sort of site as background reading then look up the exact method for your Windows Operating System (whichever that is?).
How to Backup the Registry in Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP
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testdisk
TESTDISK(8) Administration Tools TESTDISK(8)
NAME
testdisk - Scan and repair disk partitions
SYNOPSIS
testdisk [/log] [/debug] [/dump] [device|image.dd|image.e01]
testdisk /version
testdisk /list [/log]
DESCRIPTION
TestDisk checks and recovers lost partitions
It works with :
- BeFS (BeOS)
- BSD disklabel (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD)
- CramFS, Compressed File System
- DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
- HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System
- JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
- Linux ext2/ext3/ext4
- Linux Raid
RAID 1: mirroring
RAID 4: striped array with parity device
RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
- Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
- LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
- Mac partition map
- Novell Storage Services NSS
- NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)
- ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
- Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
- Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
- XFS, SGI's Journaled File System
It can undelete files from
- DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
- Linux ext2
- NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)
OPTIONS
/log create a testdisk.log file
/debug add debug information
/dump dump raw sectors
/list display current partitions
SEE ALSO
fdisk(8), photorec(8).
AUTHOR
TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
2011 November TESTDISK(8)