P.S. I also recommend you try out EruNT (that is; "Emergency Recovery
Utility for NT") - a 3rd-party update on the old ERU utility for Windows'95
which used to save the Windows registry-files.

But in NT-based Windows versions, it's not so simple to make backups of the
registry, and you cannot backup the registry by simply copying some files.

So this 3rd-party freeware utility was developed by Lars Hederer, and can
be setup to run automatically at every boot to save a copy of the
Windows-NT registry files.

I would not use EruNT as a replacement for System Restore, but have this in
addition to it as an extra layer of protection against problems with system
settings saved in the registry.

System Restore only ever restores the "Machine" areas of the registry, and
a EruNT restore covers the entire registry including the current user area.

Using the EruNT application can teach you a great deal about the way all of
the NT-based Windows versions store the registry, and the different methods
of backing-up / restoring available to you.

You can download the EruNT utility from :
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt-setup.exe

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)