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Mark Lewis
May 27th 04, 04:52 PM
Can someone tell me how to restore the system settings
from a prior date (a specific date last week)? Thanks!

Ron Badour
May 27th 04, 05:08 PM
My standard blurb:

If this problem is less than five days old, restore a copy of the registry
that predates the onset of the problem and see if that helps. The five-day
limit assumes that the computer is booted every day. If it is not booted
every day, you may have an old enough registry backup that you can use even
though more than five days have elapsed. Any registry changes made after
the date of the restored registry will be lost.

On the Start Menu, select Shut Down and Restart in MSDOS Mode. At the
Windows prompt, type: scanreg /restore and hit enter. Once the
registry restore screen appears, select the date of the registry that you
wish to restore by highlighting it and then click enter. If you see a
registry named: Rbbad.cab, that is a copy of the registry that has already
been replaced.


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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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"Mark Lewis" > wrote in message
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> Can someone tell me how to restore the system settings
> from a prior date (a specific date last week)? Thanks!