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In article <aQ+0wMA5j352Ew7R@ch-w.demon.co.uk>, John Chapple <jc@ch-
w.demon.co.uk> writes
>Is'nt there something about system.dao & user.dao which are the
>equivalent of 'last known good' in NT? which I believe if you copy over
>user.dat & system.dat, will restore a previous version? not sure which
>one though?

user.dat and system.dat can be found in the Windows folder.  Each time
you boot your machine, they are backed up to user.da0 and system.da0.
If your machine won't start Windows because of registry problems, start
up in Safe Mode, rename the two .dat files (eg change .dat to your
initials) and then rename the .da0 files to .dat.  Note that these files
have Hidden and Read Only attributes set.  Reboot.

If you have made changes which have affected the Registry and then re-
booted, it will be too late to use the .da0 files as they will have been
replaced already.  Having had my fingers burnt a few times, I keep a
copy of the .dat files in a special directory, replacing them every time
I have (for eg) installed new software and satisfied myself that
everything runs OK.  If not, I can delete anything I don't want and
restore the Registry from my backups.

Hope this helps someone.
-- 
Jenny M Benson