Question about step back

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I'd like to know about the "step back" feature in XP. For example, an
expensive program I bought months ago finally "bombed out". I spent many days
looking through my thousands of CDs so I could reload it, but didn't find the
CD. If I were to step way back I presume the program would run again.
I would expect to lose any programs installed since the step back date, and
that would be tolerable, but what about data. Would I lose password.txt with
the new password the bank required. Would I lose the picture of my
granddaughter that came by e-mail recently? I'm assuming I can't think of
every bit to data to be sure it is backed up.
 
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I'd like to know about the "step back" feature in XP. For example, an
expensive program I bought months ago finally "bombed out". I spent
many days looking through my thousands of CDs so I could reload it,
but didn't find the CD. If I were to step way back I presume the
program would run again.
I would expect to lose any programs installed since the step back
date, and that would be tolerable, but what about data. Would I lose
password.txt with the new password the bank required. Would I lose
the picture of my granddaughter that came by e-mail recently? I'm
assuming I can't think of every bit to data to be sure it is backed
up.
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Everything you wanted to know about System Restore (I'm guessing that's what
you mean by step back unless you have a third party program that you're
talking about) and more:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sr/sr/monitored_file_extensions.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../en-us/app_system_restore_hss_understand.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/faqsrwxp.mspx

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