Thanks, and hang in there
Yes. FBROWSER will sense the environment and switch automatically to
short file and directory names.
I don't exclude the swap file (and I have no C_RESTORE any more) since
I use my CLONEXX program which copies the swap file in order to enable
a verification check. The total number of bytes then must agree (among
several other things) or you can choose to Retry. Usually with no more
than one retry I find that the verification criteria are met. But it's
important to do the verification check since sometimes the cloning
isn't exact the first time.
It's not the registry to be concerned with I don't think but other
Windows files will probably be locked and you won't be able to copy
them back while Windoze is active.
I don't think that's a good approach either since you'd have to use
XXCOPY16 and that's restricted by DOS short path limitations.
I don't do things that way, and if you're really used to using System
Restore and you're happy with it you should probably continue to use
it.
I've only done one _selective_ restore using XXCOPY while in Windows.
That restore didn't involve Windows files that may be locked. It was a
data or program restoration. I don't find that I ever need to restore
Windows. I do things the way I did them for many years on Win 98. I
treat my cloned drive as strictly a emergency alternate drive in case
of disasters like a hard drive crash or severe damage due to malicious
code (which I avoid like the plague
) I handle the problems created
by crappy or buggy software without doing any kind of drive restore.