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Hello Paul - 

CA>>>> There are two backups of the registry at all times on
CA>>>> your hard drive as hidden files. See 'regedit' for
CA>>>> commands to create these manually and restore them when
CA>>>> needed. 

RJT>>> There are? 

CA>> AFAIK, yes there are. If I'm wrong someone will hop all
CA>> over my carcass explaining in great detail how wrong I am
CA>> and how I've damaged the reputation of FIDO by saying that
CA>> there are. ;-) 

PW> Actually in '9x the default number of backups is 5 copies
PW> where each is created when the system is (re)booted. 

I can live with that. My saying there are two is not _wrong_
it's just incomplete. ;-) 

PW> I've the laptop set to keep 8 copies by setting
PW> MaxBackupCopies=8 in the /windows/scanreg.ini 

PW> The BackupDirectory= line will tell you (and scanreg) where
PW> to find the backups, default is c:\windows\sysbckup which
PW> is a hidden dir. Backups will be named RBxxx.CAB where xxx
PW> is a number. 

PW> To restore a previous copy boot to the cmdline and run
PW> scanreg /restore. Scanreg will only display 5 of the
PW> backups so depending on how far back you need to go you may
PW> have to delete some of them. 

I love hidden directories! 

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