My OS rot is getting to the point where I need to wipe everything and start from scratch, which is pretty much an all day job.

For the future, does anyone know of an XP app that totally saves your systems state so you can truly restore it when you find you've tried a really crappy piece of software (again...)?

I've found that XP's System Restore points are pretty much useless. I suppose I could use Ghost and make an image, but that's a PITA.


Hmm, thinking out loud here about another idea, perhaps I could boot off a clean OS on another drive and try new software there, and keep a Ghosted image somewhere else to wipe that OS whenever I try new software.

Any other suggestions short of switching OS?