You'll save yourself ALL that hassle if you had:

COP 2.2 by Plato http://www.bootdisk.com/cop.htm

"Registry And System File Backup, Restore, and Maintenance Utility
For The Seasoned Computer Hobbyist And Experienced Technician"

Last time I checked it was Free--for personal use.

Check it out, HTH. 8)

tomas santos
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----- Original Message -----


Date:    Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:25:46 -0500
From:    joseph marty <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: W98 scanreg restore

>What about all the files programs stick in C:\windows and/or C:\windows\system?
>I don't believe everything would be back to business as usual. When I've had crashes
>in the past, as much as I hated to do it, I've reformatted and reinstalled.  It kills
>me to have to reinstall all the software, peripherals, and PCI cards.  For that reason
>I bought Goback from the original developer, Wildfile, which was bought out by Adaptec
>and is now Roxio.  It has saved me from big crashes and small ones.  It runs during
>the boot so that if Windows won't run you can still roll back your hard drive to
>a time when it did.  I've done that a couple of times when I got the message "you
>need to reinstall Windows".  I simply rolled my hard drive back an hour or two, and
>was back up and running in a few minutes.  It was the best $40 I ever spent on software.
>It also does the cleanest uninstalls because you can roll your hard drive back to
>a few minutes before you installed the offending software, and it's like it was never
>there, i.e. your registry is cleaner than a baby's bottom.  You can download a demo
>at www.roxio.com/goback.  Shop around, I think you can still get it for $39.95 somewhere.

From: "Tom >Simpson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] W98 scanreg restore


> Yes. This does work! I was able to get rid of a very bad acting win98SE
> and keep everything else on the computer by doing this. Before I did
> this, the OS would not even run because there were certain files
> missing. When I would try to start the machine, I would get a "System
> Halted" message.
>
> I was able to use a startup disk to get into DOS and was able to deltree
> Windows completely. After that, I just went into the standard
> installation off of a CD and installed a "fresh" (clean) version of
> Windows. Worked great, and didn't loose any information.
>
> The biggest problem was that I had to go back through and reinstall
> every single program that was not part of Windows, so that the programs
> would be registered with Windows.
>
> I honestly don't know what you mean by, "'refurbish' it with a
> known-to-be-good cabfile". When you do the full, clean install, it would
> already have (or should, anyway) a good cabfile.
>
>    Tom

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