How to Enable Registry Backup in Windows 10

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to enable registry backup in Windows 10. Since version 1809 (released in April 2018), Windows 10 no longer automatically saves the system registry in the C:\Windows\System32\configRegBack folder. This feature was however very useful for all the hackers. It allowed to easily restore the Windows registry in case of a problem. But Microsoft decided otherwise…

In short, if you want to restore the legacy backup functionality, you should know that it is possible! That’s because Windows 10 includes a registry key to re-enable automatic system registry backups every time your computer successfully restarts.
 

How to Enable Registry Backup in Windows 10

To enable registry backup in Windows 10 every time you start your computer, do the following:

Step 1: To enable registry backup in Windows 10. Right-click on the Start button, select Run.
 

 

 
Step 2: Type regedit and press Enter to open the Registry Editor.
 

 
Step 3: After that, navigate to the following Registry key:

Computer\HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Configuration Manager

 
Step 4: Then right-click on the Configuration Manager key, select New and click on DWORD (32-bit) Value.
 

 

 
Step 5: Name this new value EnablePeriodicBackup.
 
Step 6: Now right click on EnablePeriodicBackup and click on Edit. Set the value to 1 and confirm with OK.
 

 
Step 7: Finally, close the Registry Editor and restart your computer.

Once you complete the above steps, Windows 10 will create a backup of the entire registry in the RegBack folder and a RegIdleBackup task in the Task Scheduler to manage future backups.