1. I don't know of any way to restore from within windows.  I know there are
some shareware programs, Lifesaver, that will do it but they still have to
reboot and run from dos.

2. You can change the number of saved copies by editing the scanreg.ini file
in the windows directory.

Ben Moore


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A. Wosnick" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [PCSOFT] Windows 98 Scanreg and Scanregw


> Hi all,
>
> I know that you can run ScanReg (Windows 98) after an F8 boot up at the
> command prompt, and that this allows you to scan the registry but, more
> importantly (for me at least!) to also restore a previous registry
version.
>
> I also know that you can run Scanregw once windows has started to at least
> scan the registry and to create a backup at that moment.
>
> Two Questions:
>
> 1. In the Windows version, scanregw, is there some way to restore a
previous
> registry version, or only to save a current version. I do not see any
> options given that would allow a restore.
>
> 2. In the DOS version, scanreg, is there some way to increase the number
of
> versions that are saved (currently 5) to, say 10 versions?
>

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