[dayglored]

> I am writing you all on XP. The best of the best, in its day. I tried a win7 box five years ago. I hate that machine. My desktop is still the 15 year old XP.

If your XP machine is installed "on the metal", I hope you have fulll-image backups, so that when it has trouble, you can restore it?

I have an XP virtual machine (VM), and so restoring it is just a single file copy. I'm pretty much done installing Windows on the metal any more.

[George from New England]

Can I make that full image backup with the utilities that came with XP ? Or are you citing some other tool you recommend ?