Vista Home Installer Problem

Hope someone can help with this! For some reason which I think is related to a registry problem my Vista program installer is not working. I have tried to install several programs and when it gets to the screen entitled "Setup Wizard" showing the progress bar it freezes. When you cancel, it says "Cancelling" and freezes. I tried downloading Installer 4.5 and it won't install. Also the stand alone installer won't install.

This all started when I used a program to remove another program that would not install and I believe it damaged one or more registry entries.

I have a recent complete partition image save and I have restored the files to an external drive. I thought I would just replace the registry with the backed up registry on the external drive but I don't know how to do this as I understand Vista's reg files are in several locations. I do not have any restore points. Any ideas?

Hello PBrown, welcome to Vista Forums!


As you don't have any restore points (why not) have a look at this tutorial, at the link below, to see if it will help with your issues.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/212412-registry-backup-restore.html?ltr=R


Be sure to keep us informed as to how it sorts out.












Later Ted

Thanks for the answer Ted.
Unfortunately I don't have a Backup.reg file on my external hard drive. I restored all the files to it from an image backup. I thought that there was just one registration file like in the old days but apparently not in Vista. So, for lack of either a restore point or a backup.reg file, any ideas how I can restore these various reg files back to c drive?