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Tip of the Week: Creating Manual Restore Points before making changes

All Windows operating systems (since Win95) use a registry system that is machine specific in order to properly function.  Whenever you add new hardware or software to your computer, Windows must allow changes to the registry in order to recognize these new items.  Sometimes when a n