Security for Home and SOHO Computer Users
Windows Critical Files

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User Report experienced and written by Mike

You will probably have most of the files mentioned below. This is not a complete list of all required system files. Do a complete backup for that. This is meant to be a quick and dirty backup - just in case! This is my list for W95-98 - yours may be different. Your milage may vary, use at your own risk.

Directory of C:\

AUTOEXEC BAT It is possible you do not have this file.
CONFIG SYS It is possible you do not have this file.
COMMAND COM
IO SYS
MSDOS SYS

Directory of C:\WINDOWS

| COMMAND.COM
| COMMAND.PIF
| DOSPRMPT.PIF
| DOSSTART.BAT
| EXPLORER.EXE
| NOTEPAD.EXE
| REGEDIT.EXE
| RUNDLL.EXE
| RUNDLL32.EXE
| SCANDSKW.EXE
| SCANREGW.EXE
| SYSTEM.DAT
| TASKMAN.EXE
| TASKMON.EXE
| USER.DAT
| WIN.COM
| WIN.INI
| SYSTEM.INI
| WINSOCK.DLL

Directory of C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM

| COMCAT.DLL
| COMCT232.OCX
| COMCTL32.DLL
| COMCTL32.OCX
| COMDLG32.DLL
| COMDLG32.OCX
| COMMCTRL.DLL
| COMMDLG.DLL
| CTL3D.DLL
| CTL3D32.DLL
| CTL3DV2.DLL
| DDEML.DLL
| KRNL386.EXE
| MACXW4.DRV
| MACXW4.VXD
| MFC40.DLL
| MFC42.DLL
| MSVCRT.DLL
| MSWINSCK.OCX
| MSWSOCK.DLL
| OLE2.DLL
| OLE2CONV.DLL
| OLE2DISP.DLL
| OLE2NLS.DLL
| OLE32.DLL
| OLEAUT32.DLL
| SHDOCVW.DLL
| SHELL.DLL
| SHELL32.DLL
| SHLWAPI.DLL
| URL.DLL
| URLMON.DLL
| USER.EXE
| USER32.DLL
| WININET.DLL
| WSOCK.VXD
| WSOCK2.VXD
| WSOCK32.DLB
| WSOCK32.DLL

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