Greetings Ed!   
      
    EV>>> If M$ wrote the OS's Correctly the Registry wouldn't be such a   
    EV>>> bother.   
      
    RW>>> It's no bother, it just takes its sweet time getting around to   
    RW>>> allowing your PC to boot.   
      
    EV>> I'll say AMEN! to that! Brer Roy!,   
      
    EV>> 'Sweet Time' is the Right word to describe Booting Up a modern   
    EV>> computer, in this day and time.   
      
    RW>> I'd change that to sweat time...   
      
    EV> Yep!, sometimes I sweat wondering when it will let me see the Log On   
    EV> Screen so I can finally get to do something I turned it on for that I   
    EV> wanted to do.   
      
   That sounds like bad news.   
      
    EV>> The Commodore 64 Booted Up before I could take a second breath,   
    EV>> and shut down just as fast, Except maybe for the C= GEOS GUI Prg???.   
      
    RW>> It had a window type of OS?   
      
    EV> Yep!, Commodore even sold a Mouse that worked with GEOS.   
    EV> IIRC CBM had two mouse models for sale, one of my friends got a   
    EV> C= Mouse to use for GEOS.   
      
    EV> GEOS had applications for Writing and Painting.   
    EV> There were others but I'm not able to recall any others.   
    EV> Probably Wikipedia has a Commodore GEOS page to tell all about it.   
      
   I often wondered what use the Commordore was good for. Now I know.   
      
    EV>> I can't remember if it required you to 'wind it down' like all the   
    EV>> MS Windows OSs expected to be done so it could keep its act in   
    EV>> order.   
      
    RW>> You  wouldn't be very happy with it if it dumped your pgms out   
    RW>> of memory before it had a chance to save any work you've done.   
      
    EV> Anytime the Lights Blinked in my room, the C=64 and whatever I was   
    EV> doing was lost.   
      
   That's par...   
      
    EV> If I was typing in a PRG from a Magazine I periodically Saved what   
    EV> I was doing in case my A.C. Power was interupted.   
      
   Heh! Been there, done that, only it was on my TI994a...   
      
    EV> Last year when I was using the Commodore 64 for something, my wife   
    EV> flipped the wall switch as she left my room, just a short BLINK!,   
    EV> but the Boot Screen came up on my C=64.   
      
   LOL!   
      
    EV> Since that happened I ran a extension cord from the UPS over to the   
    EV> Power Strip the Commodore gear is plugged in to.   
      
   That'll help.   
      
    EV>>> I can't remember for sure if Windows 3.x had a Registry or not, I'm   
    EV>>> thinking it didn't, but I'm not for sure about my thoughts.   
      
    RW>>> I'm not sure anymore either. I haven't used it in 15+ years and   
    RW>>> glad to report that.   
      
    EV> I looked and Yes!, Windows 3.1 has a Registry.   
      
   Egads.   
      
    EV> -snip-   
      
    EV>> I "think" I remember reading to do a Save To Desktop type procedure   
    EV>> just before doing any changes to the Registry, or something like   
    EV>> that, 'Just In Case' the Registry got corrupted, or power went off,   
    EV>> etc. while doing some editing in it.   
      
    RW>> Making a backup of the registry before you proceed with making   
    RW>> any changes to it will help you recover from things that go   
    RW>> bang in the night. It's best to keep that backup off of the   
    RW>> boot drive.   
      
    EV>> Safety First!   
      
    EV> You're Right!, it Should be on another HDD instead of me putting   
    EV> it on the Desktop as MS suggests to do.   
      
   It doesn't have to be on another HDD, you can use a non-bootable partition   
   to store it on.   
      
      
       Have a day!   
      
            R\%/itt - K5RXT   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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