GUEST -

You're sort of right about System Restore in Windows 2K. It uses a whole 'nother terminology, but the facility is there. You do have to log in with administrator privileges, and there are some pretty messy things you can do to the setup, but the normal setup (or at least mine - but am I still normal??)does keep registry backups. It's not necessarily "easy" to get to them and restore them, because of the many ways you can change things in 2K.

In older (Win95, Win98) the simplest "safety net" was to make your own registry backups, by going into regedit and "save as" to put a registry copy (.reg) in a safe place. Then you just "double-click" the backup file to put it back. (Of course the hazard was that you'd forget what that file was for, and double click it to see "what it does" - and "destroy" your registry.)

John