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Gerry Quinn <ger...@DELETETHISindigo.ie> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>In article <j6pt039irbic28m74...@4ax.com>, 
>Xoc...@kingston.net says...
>> Gerry Quinn <ger...@DELETETHISindigo.ie> looked up from reading the
>> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>> say:
>> >In article <087q0392k1eik8snk...@4ax.com>, 
>> >zagh...@hotmail.com says...
>> >
>> >> You can also back it up using regedit's "export" function, or get a full
>> >> fledged, robust regeditor like Registry Workshop (http://www.torchsoft.com/).
>> >> 
>> >> Why MS didn't include a utility like this with the OS, or at least in the
>> >> Resource Kit, is beyond me.
>> >
>> >Because even more idiots would break their systems by tinkering with 
>> >it.
>> 
>> Of course though, breaking it is the first step to learning how to fix
>> it or just "not do that".
>
>Only for under-sixes, or morons.

For anyone who isn't knowledgeable.

Tweaking the system can get you more performance or cause problems (more
likely problems if you don't know what you're doing.)
Someone who tweaks too much and "breaks" their system has hopefully
learned something, so after a reinstall (or revert) they can tweak but
not break.

I've seen that in action;  Years ago a friend of mine who was totally
computer illiterate bought himself a computer.

He'd tweak things and break it, call for help and i'd go fix it.
After a while there were no calls - he'd break it and then fix it
himself.
The difference between him and so many others is he realized that he
needed to learn and did.

[In under a year he went from knowing nothing about computers to owning
2 of them and running a BBS.]

>> That would be better than the "I don't need to know anything about my
>> computer, Microsoft knows best" mentality that pervades now.
>
>All I know is, if you're re-installing Windows a lot, your a fool.  
>You're an especially big fool if you're re-installing Windows a lot and 
>you think you know something about it. 

Can't argue too much with that, but then my learning days were in the
days of DOS where it was pretty hard to total the system.
I still remember when MS added Memmaker (their nifty new automated
memory setting thing) and it ended up giving _less_ low memory available
than my settings.

Xocyll