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JMI: Good advice. I have an old machine for this very purpose, and since the hardware changes extremely rarely, I also have Ghost CD-Rs which contain standard Win98 and WinXP images, and I can install either OS in a matter of minutes. Should I screw anything up so the OS falls over, a complete newly installed OS is a matter of minutes away.
This is becoming more and more important as more shareware developers (and protectors) are using more low-level routines. The ZW functions, for example, can create and delete registry keys that the normal user-functions can see, but not alter (which includes regedit & regedt32) which makes them prime targets for these protectors/shareware authors. These calls also slip past all current registry monitors.
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