Hi Mastertech,
I tell you about this good example. Please do not try to replicate the situation, because you land in a mess then. It can happen when you try to scan with a non-resident anti-virus scanner (I won't name the free software here) Outlook Express files as they are situated in program files, you have to open them and you losse the sequence there (do not ask me how and why?). These things happen when you try to do something the programmers did not foresee, and this is bound to happen while programnmers of external software do not know all (or enough) about the inner workings of the OS software used. That is also a reason why patented software as proposed would be hindering solving these problems in the future. Well I am not going to replicate this situation, but I was glad I had RestoreIt to safe my glorious behind here. RestoreIt is that accurate, that when you restore to a BSOD situation, it repeats that with the accompanying scandisk log files.
greets,
polonus