Any recommendations?Nothing better, then ERUNT: http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
It makes backup automatically every day. I use it on every machine, I have. Backs up more, then System Restore.Manual here: http://pcug.org.au/boesen/ERUNT/ERUNT.htmWhat a contrast...

Thanks for an actual recommendation Broni, I knew rather than a sarcastic suggestion to search for one, obviously in an attempt to amuse, I could rely on you to offer assistance (as always).

Then again, I feel bad now, maybe Google is the extent of Stevejohnson1958's knowledge?

Hey, we should all do that, no matter what anyones question is = Google.

What a FORUM that would be? Stevejohnson1958 would no doubt be the moderator

You see Stevejohnson1958 (no middle names?) how it works in this forum's community, is we suggest/offer ways in which to help people. I asked for a recommendation, hoping that it would be from someone who has actually experienced using that recommendation. Then, if I think that person is trustworthy enough, I will take their recommendation.

If I wanted to search for a program, I would use Google (sorry to break this to you Stevejohnson1958, but we ALL know what Google is for).

Thanks again Broni

No thanks Stevejohnson1958googlerecommendationspa tronisingI can see, you got really pissed off....hehehe

There are some serious advantages of ERUNT vs. System Restore.
Three of them are crucial:
- Using Erunt, you can restore your registry, even, if you can't boot to Windows
- automatic, daily backup
- System Restore doesn't include "hives", and ERUNT does

From ERUNT's help file:
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt
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In MS-DOS based Windows versions (95, 98, Me) the registry consists of
the files SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT (and CLASSES.DAT in Windows Me). To
backup these files, one can easily go to the Windows folder in
Explorer and copy the files to a safe location, for example another
folder on the hard disk. Microsoft even supplies a utility called ERU
which can be used to backup these and a few other critical system
files to a safe location.

Also, Windows 9x/Me automatically create backups of the registry at
startup, with Windows 95 always backing up the registry from the
previous Windows session, and Windows 98/Me maintaining up to five
registry copies from the last five days where Windows was running.

Unfortunately, this is not the case with Windows versions based on the
NT kernel. In Windows NT and 2000, the registry is never backed up
automatically, and in XP it is backed up only as part of the bloated
and resource hogging System Restore program which cannot even be used
for a "restore" should a corrupted registry prevent Windows from
booting. It has also become impossible to copy the necessary files,
now called "hives" and usually named DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE,
SYSTEM in the SYSTEM32\CONFIG folder, to another location because they
are all in use by the OS. And though the registry in an NT-based
Windows is less likely to become corrupted than in other versions, it
can still happen, and for these cases NT is simply missing an option
for easy registry backup and restore as there is in Windows 9x/Me, to
get the system up and running again in no time.

In 2001, as Windows XP began to come pre-installed on many new home
user PCs and was likely to become the new Windows STANDARD over the
next years, I decided to write a program which offers the ease-of-use
of Windows 9x/Me ERU by Microsoft (hence the name ERUNT) to backup the
registry, as well as providing an auto-backup capability, for example
at Windows startup.

Or, before installing a new program for testing purposes one could
save the registry with ERUNT, install and test the program, uninstall
it and restore the registry to be 100% sure that no debris is left.

Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) for
making a complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the
whole registry (for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive
is saved), nor can the exported file be used later to replace the
current registry with the old one. Instead, if you re-import the file,
it is merged with the current registry without deleting anything that
has been added since the export, leaving you with an absolute mess of
old and new entries.

So why don't you just *** off!

It backs up your registry everytime it CREATES a Restore point.

Have you ever seen that video about Posting and You?

Kind of reminds me of this guy...LMAO!

Update: Posting and You