Or you can get ontrack and it will back up your registry...like mine everynight at 4am along with a virus scan...man I should work for these guys love there products...just dl easyrecovery from them and del some text files emptied recycle bin and sure enough got them back...they also have filefixer for ms office files. this is like the 10th time I spammed about them...so can someone just try it out you'll love it...
ontrack system suite 4.0