BACK UP THE WIN98 REGISTRY WITH SCANREG

Before making any registry changes to your Win9x PCs, you should always back up the registry. Most administrators know how to export a registry branch, or even the whole registry, using the Registry Editor (Regedit.exe). However, Windows 98 also includes the ScanReg program, which comes in two flavors--the Windows Scanregw.exe and the DOS Scanreg.exe.

By default, ScanReg runs every time you start the system and backs up the registry once a day into a .cab file in the c:\windows\sybckup directory. If you can start your system in MS-DOS mode, you can run ScanReg with the /restore switch to restore your entire registry.

That's useful to know, but you can also start Scanregw.exe manually at any time before a system change. It may tell you that the backup has already taken place that day, but it also gives you the option to back up again, providing a quick and easy complete registry backup.