DAT "C:\Users\Phillip J. Fry"
3. When you??™re done, pop out your Vista setup disc and restart your PC.
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See Chapter 6 for more information on backup software that copies your full
Registry along with all of your system files. And check out the ???How Else
Windows Backs Up the Registry??? sidebar, next, for some other features in
Windows Vista.
File Type Associations
File type associations are the links between your documents and the applications
that use them. The most apparent use of this feature is that, for example,
Windows knows to open Notepad when you double-click a text
document on the desktop or show you an online advertisement for anatomical
enhancement if you click the link in a spam email message.
How Else Windows Backs Up the Registry
The aforementioned automatic hive file backups stored in the \Windows\
System32\config\RegBack folder represent just one of several fail-safe systems
built in to Windows Vista.
There??™s also a way to undo a bad hardware driver installation without backing
up or restoring the Registry at all. Just open Device Manager, right-click
the cranky device, select Properties, choose the Driver tab, and click Roll
Back Driver. If that doesn??™t work, right-click the device and select Uninstall.
When prompted, confirm that you want to delete the driver files. Then, disconnect
and reconnect the device, or restart Windows if reconnecting isn??™t
practical.
You can remove petulant software with the Programs and Features tool in
Control Panel, but only if the program??™s uninstaller behaves itself.
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