How To Always Keep Your Registry Backed Up
Always Keep Your Registry Backed Up
Also your:
AUTOEXEC.BAT
SYSTEM.DAT
USER.DAT
PROTOCOL.INI
SYSTEM.INI
WIN.INI
CONFIG.SYS
MSDOS.SYS
And will restore all to there original state to the byte when needed.
This has save my tail on many occasions.
Important
Before You Do Anything; Make a Startup Disk
Upon installing Windows 95/98, you're given the option to create a Startup Disk--a disk that, should you ever have trouble starting Windows 95/98, boots your system and provides some utilities to (you hope) diagnose the problem. If, in your haste to get started with Windows 95/98 (or because you didn't have a blank disk handy), you opted to skip this step, I recommend you take a minute to make the disk now. You'll be mighty glad to have one, if and when you need it.
First, locate a blank, formatted disk. If you can't find one, a disk that contains some old, useless files will do; just beware that they'll be wiped out in the process.
Open the Control Panel (select Start, Settings, Control Panel) and double-click Add/Remove Programs. Select the Startup Disk tab, then click the Create Disk button. Now just follow along as Windows 95/98 walks you through the disk creation process. When it finishes, be sure to label the disk and keep it in a safe place. (While you're at it, switch that little plastic tab on the back of the floppy disk to the down position--you'll be able to see through the disk--to write-protect it.)
Under Windows 98, Use Scanregw
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