Win7 Registry Reset?

Mister Fox · 15 Jul 2012

I am going to be giving my laptop to a family member soon, and I am trying to "clean it out" to make sure they get it as close to new as possible. I have ran a program to delete broken shortcuts and I have deleted all my old personal files and defragmented the hard drive.

However, I would also like to try and "reset" the windows 7 registry, as all of the keys from my time with it are still in it. I was thinking that I could download a backup file of a clean registry and use it to "reset" my registry.

Would this work?

Brink · 15 Jul 2012

Hello Fox,

The easiest way to wipe everything out and return it all back to default would be to reinstall Windows 7. :)

Hope this helps,
Shawn

kegobeer · 15 Jul 2012

To piggyback on Shawn's idea, if you have a restore partition/restore discs provided by the laptop manufacturer, just use that to restore your laptop to the original state.

Kari · 15 Jul 2012

Not being known as a modest person I need to promote my own tutorial

Windows 7 Installation - Prepare PC to be Sold

It is made exactly for situations like yours, to give / sell your PC as "virgin" as possible.

Kari