configuration archive Actually from expereince that is a good approach. Expereince has been that when I needed a back up or archive I also had changed OSs due to major system failure. For example the latest was due to a real disk crash. So I finally jumped off W3.1 to WinNT4 so archives were actually more useful. I started doing that lots of years ago as every new varient of CP/M system usually had more storage so it was rare that I wanted to reproduce the former configuration. Also archives allowed me to leave off stuff that was of little or no further interest. Allison