On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:02:25 -0600, Lostgallifreyan
wrote:

One thing worth doing is to back up the entire registry to a file before
testing a new program...

I use ERUNT for both manual and automatic (on boot) registry backups.
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://technologizer.com/2009/05/26/why-i-dumped-windows-system-restore-for-erunt/
It has saved my posterior more times than I care to admit.


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