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by learn4ever

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I am creating a file list for a manual back-up utility to auto-back-up critical system files. Should I include 'USER.DAT' and 'system.dat'? If I restore these files froma back-up that is a couple of days old, will this cause me greif?

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by thechas

System.dat and user.dat are the Windows registry.

So, yes you should include them in your backup.

As to grief of restoring them, not any more grief than any other 'system' file.

You will need to re-install any software or user setting changes that happened since the backup.

Chas

by learn4ever

Thanks...been in regedit a number of times, but didn't realize that those 2 files WHERE the registry....feel sort of studpid!

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