Jack wrote:
registry, it is unlikely he'd still have a pre-infection copy of the registry. While it is a nice idea to have a central database where one can configure everything on the system, it was an extremely bad idea to make it so cryptic and accessible for abuse.
Anyway that's my thought for the day. Avoid the cancer that Windows has become, use Linux.
as with most good ideas they were pushed beyond logicle and reasonable limits. I find way to much CRAP is put in a registry like icq# and misc information that realy needs to reside with the program incase of emergency.