I messed up the registry

[sjaguar13]

I was trying to get rid of the eBay toolbar, so I searched the registry deleting everything that has to do with the eBay toolbar. There was something about a short cut to the toolbar, so I deleted that. It turns out, that it was the part of the registry for all short cuts. Now, every short cut everywhere doesn't work. Is there a way to fix this?

[glc]

What version of Windows, please?

If it's 98, restart in DOS mode and type SCANREG/RESTORE at the C prompt - and put a known good registry back. If you have ME, you can do this in a DOS window. If it's 95, you have problems, you may have to reinstall Windows over the top.

[tacoeater]

Not sure which but spybot 1.3 or adaware will also offer to remove the ebay toolbar.

Once you restore you can try it.
Spybot:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Adaware:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

[sjaguar13]

Scanreg fixed it. How do I back up the registry now incase I have to do it again?

Spybot messed up the toolbar, so I was going to reinstall it, but I couldn't. It said it was already installed. Spybot got rid of the uninstaller, so I had to way of actually removing the toolbar and getting it again. I think I finally got rid of it, but I still can't reinstall.

[glc]

Scanreg runs on every bootup unless you remove it from the startup, and it makes a backup the first bootup of each day, and keeps the last 5 backups. To do a manual backup, follow the same procedure but it's SCANREG/BACKUP .

[sjaguar13]

I must have removed it because the newest one was from January.