Here's a tangential story, but you may enjoy the ensuing conversation. A friend of mine had to reinstall Windows XP because he was getting the BSOD upon booting (even when booting into Safe Mode).
I was talking him through it this evening (mostly for moral support; he knew how to do it on his own -- but we had to delete some registry keys at one point) -- and had this conversation towards the very end of the process:
(23:00:59) Steve: "Backing up registry"
(23:01:44) mindseye: Okay. (Back it up NOW after we had to go in and tweak it!)
(23:02:15) Steve: It is backing it up, but where will it PUT it? (And will it be able to FIND it later?
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(23:03:34) mindseye: Who knows?
(23:03:46) Steve: LOL
(23:03:52) mindseye: Maybe by "backing it up", they simply mean "rearranging it in reverse order".
(23:03:53) Steve: That was a rhetorical question.
(23:04:08) Steve: Backing it up = trashing it thoroughly.
(23:04:17) Steve: Obliteratiiationing
(23:04:43) mindseye: That's a possibility, too.
(23:05:05) mindseye: Or "backing it up . . . over your cat. And your Roxio software."
(23:05:20) Steve: LOL
(23:05:27) Steve: EXCELLENT!
(23:05:42) Steve: And Netscape if we find it in there.
(23:05:51) mindseye: Heh. That, too!
(23:06:10) mindseye: Wait ... are those Quicktime videos?
(23:06:19) Steve: *tsk tsk*
(23:06:41) Steve: "This is for your own good....because Big Brother knows best."
(23:07:03) mindseye: "This hurts me more than it -- oh, who am I kidding?"
(23:07:31) Steve: "Did we mention that we will be charging you for every file we have to remove?"
(23:07:39) Steve: "It was in the license agreement."
(23:08:15) mindseye: "What do you mean you didn't read it all?"
(23:08:42) Steve: "We will harbor no debate when we show up for your firstborn."
(23:09:56) mindseye: *laughs*
(23:10:01) mindseye: BILL MUST FEED!
(23:10:05) Steve: LOL
(23:10:15) mindseye: (How sick is that?)
(23:11:11) Steve: Yet, I accepted it as factual.