How to Back up Individual Registry Keys Windows 10/11? [MiniTool Tips]

What Is Registry?

Some of you may don’t what Registry is. In fact, the Registry is a sensitive database which contains a series of settings that enables Windows and the applications to run normally.

Usually, the database settings are very important, and even a small wrong modifying the values might lead to the Windows operating system installation corruption. Due to this, if you are an ordinary user, you’d better not change the settings in the Registry.

How to Back up Individual Registry Keys Windows 10?

However, if you really need to make some changes on the Registry, you need to make a preparation, and that is to back up individual Registry Keys Windows 10.

Reading here, you may say you know how to back up the entire Registry or create a full backup of your computer. However, in this post, we will introduce you another simple way which is mentioned above: how to back up individual Registry keys Windows 10.

In this situation, you need to use the Registry editor to back up the individual keys which you want to modify. This way is more convenient than backing up the entire database.

On the other hand, you can use this method to export a particular configuration with which you can use to enable, disable or configure the same features on a different PC which is running the same Windows 10 version.

Then, in the following content, we will show you how to back up individual Registry keys on your Windows 10 machine.

Step 1: You need to open Start. Then, please search for regedit. After that, you need to right-click the top result and then select the option Run as administrator.

Step 2: You need to navigate to settings locations you need to back up. Then, please choose the key you want to back up. Next, please click the File option from the menu bar. After that, please press Export option from the drop-down menu.

Actually, there is another way for you to export the key: please just right-click on the key and then select the Export option from the pop-out menu to back up the settings.

Step 3: Then, you need to choose a location to save the keys. Then, please rename the .reg file. For instance, you can name it as Original-WindowsDefender-Settings.

After that, you need to check the Selected branch option.

Step 4: When all are prepared, you need to click the Save button to keep the selected key.

After these four simple steps, all of your wanted key and settings which are the part of the branch will be backed up in the registration (.reg) file.

Now, this is the end of individual Registry keys backup Windows 10.

If you want to view these backed up information, you can enter the specified storage path, right-click on the .reg file, and then choose the Edit option to view it.

If you want to restore the backed up keys, you can use the Import feature to restore it.

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