Windoz

[levelLORD]

B: exporting from regedit and importing won't delete keys that have been created. It'll only restore keys that had gone missing.

Are you saying that imporing previously exported *.reg would not bring it back to it's original state?
Then it appears that only way to do it to erase new keys is to go manually through regedit?

And about restore thing. I have only used it once when winMe came out. In that time I was working in printing company making designs and, if I remember correctly, winMe was bugging me to make restore point. So I did it. After a few days, something just goes wrong (nothing is weird with winMe), and I tried that "restore point" M$'s  miracle. After a while and a frenetic hdd work, everything pops up, in nice and working condition, except that I was missing around more than 60 designs and who knows what else. That is the last time I have used M$ stupidity called "restore point" s##t. It is good if you have nerves to make resdtore point every time before installation, tweaking, playing around, but is that the way how OS should work, making restore points every few hours?

regards,

levelLORD

[mikeymike]

Are you saying that imporing previously exported *.reg would not bring it back to it's original state?

Importing a reg file will never remove any existing keys.  It's an odd thing for a security feature to come from MS, but this is one of the few.  If a reg file did provide a means of deleting keys, then someone could send you one, you open it, and you have no registry left.

re: OS reliability and co

NTx is what Windows should have been in 1996.  NT4/2k/XP is far less temperamental, a far more ideal learning platform than 9x.