Error acessing the registry

I am trying to restore some registry from the back ups that I did, but when double click on them, it tells me "Error acessing the registry". How do I fix this?

Are you using xp or vista?

Can you access the registry via regedit?

XP.

By regedit, do you mean by using Run? If so, yes I can get to that from Run.

Have you altered the backup file in any way? Does it end in .reg?

Can you go to regedit and do file > import and browse to the backup?

Well nevermind, I found out that there wasn't anything that I needed to backup to fix something.

Thanks for the help though.

No problem.

Take care :)