On 4/26/2012 1:32, andrel wrote:
> You might be right (no reason to doubt that), but after a crash and a
> reinstall of windows people tend to write off all programs, and will
> reinstall everything from scratch. Even people that should know better.

Well, yes. There's little point to keeping the registry around if you're 
going to reinstall programs.

>> Yep. But honestly, I'm not sure what you need to rescue from the
>> registry. None of your data files should be in your registry.
>
> No, but if the programs refuse to run, you can still not access your data.

For what program can you not back up the data separately from the program? 
That sounds rather silly.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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