Roger Griffiths wrote:

> If I back up my registry for Win98 SE whilst the system is well behaved and then later when things turn to custard resulting in me restoring the Registry, what happens exactly? If I have software that was installed since the last backup of Registry, is it therefore lost when restoration is actioned? If so does this mean that although the data might exist on the disk, it will be useless, since it's registry entries are no longer present? Can I assume in such cases that I can remove these unregistered programs at this point safely? I assume drivers are included in the registry backup. So if a program installs that hooks into Windows, and I've had a few in the past, that won't uninstall, then I can safely restore the Registry and clean the disk of the unwanted application that way - yes?

Short answer is no. during installation, not only "program files", but also dll files and other system files could be placed or replace original dll files. delete file folder without repair replaced system files could lead your system getting into trouble. personaly, I disagree the way today's software works, they copy files into system folder (eg. c:\windows\system), some software replace system dll files, create software conflicts (especialy when old version of dll files replaced newer version by the installation)... I'm not a programer, so I hope someone can tell me why software cannot have their own folders to store required files without touch of operation system. back to old DOS days, no software replace system files, why today's software have to?

Jun Qian

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