Jeff Liebermann wrote in
:

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/...ystem-restore-
for-erunt/ It has saved my posterior more times than I care to admit.




I heard of that one I think, maybe even kept a copy. I developed habits of
doing stuff manually though, and eventually using wxLua to script stuff. In
the long run it turned out easier than finding stuff and testing it..

I do a registry lock too, so each boot it's the same. Easy to override at
prompt by hitting ESC. On W98 though (I stay, obstinately), not at all sure
how easy that kind of thing might be to solve with WXP and later. With W98..
locking, backups, all equally easy with a batch file or two. I agree with the
philosophy of dumping system restore nonsense for a specialised tool. Ghost
saves my hide more often than I can count.