Win98Se reverting to a more than 1 year old registry

[Technoid]

I got a emegency call from my mom about her computer crashing and reboting to ask for files that were missing....

I told her to pull the plug untill I got home.

When I turned on the computer after returning home after work I started to feel like I was in a "Tales of the crypt" stories (altough computer based).

The files it was claiming to be lost was from programs that hadent been on the computer for more than a year (like thunderbyte antivirus, it was discontinued a year ago) and such.

And when windows displayed it showed a login with a user name that was as old as the programs it had warned about.

But at that time I finaly concluded that "Scanreg" had its dirty fingers in this mess!

I ran scanreg from pure dos and forced it to recover a registry from the day before and everything was back to normal.

But why why why did it dig up a more than a YEAR old registry from the beginning??

[Admiral]

And when windows displayed it showed a login with a user name that was as old as the programs it had warned about.

You might want to scan it for viruses.

[The PIT]

Strange ever so often my win98 decides it wants to delete the registry backup cabs. Why after so many years it suddenly decided to do this and then on a random basis I don't know.

[Technoid]

Scaning for viruses was the first thing I did after getting it back up runing.

The thing thats disturbs me is that it had a saved registry from the day before it screwed up, why dident it use that?

The above question will forewer remain rethorical....

[The PIT]

Another one to ponder is why after using drive mapper after merging a partition windows 98 was completly screwed. Restoring the registry from just before drive mapper was run didn't fix it. Everything in the device manager had gone!!