Backing up your personal data such as documents, email, photos and media files will give you considerable peace of mind, but what should you do when Windows itself starts giving trouble or refuses to work at all? In such a case, the problem is usually a damaged or missing registry key. Getting the computer back up and going would be rather difficult if you didn't have any backup of your system settings, which is why 'so many users choose to go through an expensive and time-consuming reinstallation process. Formatting your drive and.,starting from scratch need not be necessary at all if your computer is equipped with the tools it needs to archive system data. A backup taken each time Windows starts up is optimal. It does not add much to your booting time and guarantees a measure of security. The programERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT) is perfect for this purpose.

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During installation, create a folder for your backups to be stored in, and confirm the question about whether the tool should be put into the auto start folder. Now run ERUNT using its shortcut under 'Start I All Programs I Startup' and open its context menu with a right- click. Select 'Properties' so that you go to the configuration dialog box. Under 'Shortcut', enter "/always create" in the 'Target' field so that ERUNT creates a backup of the registry at each startup. The performance of the PC does not suffer in this case; ERUNT makes the copies at breakneck speed. Even so, if you do not want daily backups just type '/days:x' instead, where "x" stands for the number of days after which each new backup should be created. Then, if any emergency does occur with Windows, there's no cause for panic. Simply boot the PC in Safe Mode and recover the original file.