[gyrgrls]

I bought a webcam for a friend.
They claimed it worked on Windows 2000.

It didn't , with SP4.
Worked fine on Win98, though...

Since installing on my machine (for troubleshooting purposes),
I get beaucoups page fault errors, causing programs to skip or freeze.
When the product came out, Win2k was on SP1, I believe?
Maybe SP2. No matter. My system is hosed now.

Feh.

This is not a query for help. I already know I need to format and reinstall.
I am just venting.

BEWARE legacy products.
Install drivers with utmost caution.
Or else!

&^$%#@! hardware vendors.

[junker39]

I use ERUNT to make a registry backup of my Win2000 system. If you do something like using a bad program, you can run the Restore and it will put you back to where you were at the point of the backup. I've used it more than once to straighten things out good enough to go and remove whatever was causing the problem. You can do a backup manually or it will do one at Startup. It's free.
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

[gyrgrls]

Too late for that now, But I'll make a note, for future reference.

[JohnWill]

I use Acronis True Image to make a backup every week. I keep them four deep, gives me a month to figure out something's hosed.