If you have tried to use XP's System Restore you may have found it does not always work. ERUNT has recenty updated there Free program. It is a simple easy to use program which may save your system. ERUNT The Emergency Recovery Utility NT http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP "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." One of the features is an automatic daily backup which will keep 30 days before deleting the oldest. I back up with it then burn the back-up to CD, it makes a bootable backup. Mike ~ one of the Moderators It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews http://www.mwn.ca/ ~*~*~*~*~ For a complete list of email commands for our list send an email to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line of "info 1stpicksoftware" without the quotes. If you wish to unsubscribe from our list send an email to 1stpicksoftware-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe To contact the list moderators send an email to 1stpicksoftware-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ~*~*~*~*~