grasshopper,

You could try Norton GoBack (formerly Roxio Goback) but it ain't free.

Zippy
"Haggis" wrote in message
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"grasshopper" wrote in message
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System Restore was first introduced in Win ME.
Sorry, but I have not heard of any program that will supply a simple
substitute.


Okay allan, but surely you jest.

maybe i asked for the wrong thing.
i'm looking for the equivalent to the program that allows you to set
a ' restore point ' .
Is this something that has been put in the too-hard basket?
Surely there is a program out there that can do this; else why would
XP have it as a standard norm if it wasnt important?
I for one know its important as i lost my whole computer for months
due to mishaps and dramas, but a simple restore point could have
taken the computer back to a time when all was well.

anyhow, thanks for the know-how on the character map, i did what you
suggested and will be playing with it.

g/h



sorry , but the best thing win98 has is "scanreg /restore" which lets you
go
to a previous registry (stores 4 registry backups by default)

one of my "habits" was to get a system up and running the way i like ,
then
make an image of the drive...so at least i had a good starting point