Thank you, semoi. I had never noticed any such disclaimer. Such a design
is simply insane! Why in the world would you purposely cripple someone's
indispensible backup feature and then hide such an important disclosure in
fine print? In this case, we have lost invaluable drivers and programs (all
legal productive software) that are no longer available on the internet.

Incredible!! How in the world can a company be so incompetent as to
alienate loyal users in this fashion? I agree with your characterization of
Microsoft 100%. We continually end up with nothing but frustration using
Microsoft utilities. A fine example is Remote Assistance, advertised as a
simple, trouble-free way for users to help each other (certainly a worthy
endeavor), yet not once have we ever been able to configure a reliable
connection; regardless of the computer, location, version, configuration, or
technical ability of the installer.

I hope some day we can have the privilege of immortalizing some
clear-thinking individual who eventually brings reliability, flexibility,
and sanity back into the software world.

Thanks,
Richard

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"semoi" wrote in message
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My copy of Vista Home Premium clearly states in the tiny fine blue print
that executables are not backed up.
Your version may be different.
I see the Vista backup program as utterly useless bloatware, like much of
Vista (as well as other Microsoft and Apple OSes).
If you want a complete back-up of your hard drive you will need additional
software. Alas such back-up software is not entirely reliable. Even if you
scan/verify your back-up it may fail when you actually need to use it as
too many of us have found after disaster struck. It can be worth creating
these back-ups, because if they actually work when you need them you are
fortunate, but you need a back up for your back up:
The safest back-up schemes involve copying data files to whatever medium
you prefer and saving your program installation discs and activation keys.