Re: The Windows\Repair files

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Hi Paul,

Curious then, as I've got 6 XP installations sitting in front of me and none
of them have that folder, nor can I recall seeing one on any that I've
worked on recently. They are all a mix of upgrades and clean installations.
Nor can I find any mention of a regback folder in the MSKB articles in
relation to an XP installation, only on NT4 and Win2K. I would suspect that
perhaps your network folks that pushed out the SP2 upgrade created that
folder as a fallback point if one of the SP2 installs failed (and chose it
precisely because it would be familiar had they previously worked on early
NT systems), it would certainly seem like a logical thing to do.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Paul D B" <polleke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:
Hi,

There is no default \regback folder in WinXP, it's either a leftover
from a Win2K upgrade or was created by some other utility. WinXP only
uses the \repair directory. No idea why MS doesn't provide for better
registry backups in XP, at least Win9x created regular backups with
the scanreg utility. Most people I know rely on the erunt utility as
a solution.
Rick,

each and every PC in our network has that regback folder and none of them
have been upgraded from W2K.
The folders are dated Oct 2004 while the original XP install dates from
Feb 2003.
I did some detective work here and October 2004 was when we upgraded
XP-SP1 to XP-SP2.

So I'm quite sure the repair\regback is created by XP-SP2 setup.

Meanwhile I've installed Erunt and it is working great.

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Paul



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