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To: mr.mark who wrote (9876)	5/29/2000 9:33:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

.DA0 stuff... I think* you're correct about .DA0 being Win95 and not Win98 files. On my system, (Win98) at boot, I get new .DAT files, with the originals re-named to *.BAK, with the attributes set to hidden and read-only on all four. On my Win98 system, the registry (and a bit more) is compressed and stored in .CAB (Cabinet) files in the hidden SYSBCKUP directory. These files are named RB000.CAB through RB005.CAB, rolling over to RB000 following RB005. I'm assuming that the RB stands for Registry Backup, but then again, we're dealing with Windows, so who really knows? If I needed to restore my registry, I'd check these .CAB files and pick the one created on the most recent known clean boot date to supply my needed files. I'd extract the registry files from this .CAB and copy them to my Windows directory. Obviously, I'd only be doing this work if my Windows was totally corrupted; hence, my machine would've been booted to DOS Safe mode. Another thing --- When Windows installs, the original registry is stored as SYSTEM.1ST and USER.1ST for use as a last resort. Since most people's system changes profoundly since installing Windows initially, these files are nearly always a waste of disk space. Cheers, PW.