Registry is most important in computers , it is like heart of Operating system if you delete any files or corrupt in registry your computer may not boot . so always back up your registrry before you do any changes to it
using registry you can control operating system . and alter things in OS .
Registry mainly contains system.dat and user.dat both the user settings and information and Hardware of computer are stored in these hidden files .
Run > regedit > choose File menu > export > and save the file
You can back your registry in the same way by Importing ..
we can import the registry settings like this
start > Run > regiedit
Now registry editor window will open you can the pick like this