Anna wrote:

>What exactly happens when you restore a registry backup after you have 
>been tootling along for a week or so?    Should you  uninstall anything 
>you had installed, remove any hardware, etc??>>


No, you don't need to do anything.  Just locate the folder where you backed 
up to (usually Windows/ERDNT folder by default, not always the ideal 
place), run the Erdnt.exe file located within that folder, and tell it to 
restore. It will do the rest---takes about 10 seconds.

It's painless and very simple. Has saved my bacon on numerous occasions 
ever since the W95 days. And you can keep known good registries forever. Of 
course, the further back you go, the more you may need to reinstall. That's 
a small price to pay to keep that sparkling performance.

It's the only way to keep your registry in good clean condition----registry 
cleaners only do a very superficial job.

Don Penlington

 From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland.
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