Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Yeah. All well in theory, but a lot of stuff is downloads, others are 
> from discs that I may not know the location of, 

Sure. I'm just saying that when I install crap, one of the install steps is 
"store this on the "S:\Software" drive along with a text file saying any 
particular pain I had in installing it."  It's advice for next time, not 
this time. :-)

> How hard would it have 
> really been to track which changes a specific application made to the 
> registry, then let you "migrate" the damn things by processing out the 
> registry data for it. 

The problem with third-party apps is ensuring they only write to the areas 
they're supposed to write to. It would be pretty trivial if you could count 
on apps only storing stuff in the parts of the file system and registry 
where they're supposed to.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."

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