I suggest that you use Coban Backup. I am using Coban 7 on Vista. Coban 8
bets is available but I haven't tested it. Coban is free from
[url]http://www.coban.se[/url].

I guess that Microsoft makes the assumption is that, if all of your exe's
are legitimate, you have original CD's for re-installing them and they don't
need backed up. I guess they forgot that even Microsoft offers you software
by download.

And, if you're on a slow or less-than-fast (such as satellite) Internet
connection, you'd much rather back up the exe instead of download again. Or
perhaps the original vendor doesn't allow you to download after some period
of time.

I don't know why I bother to rant and rave on these newsgroups; other than
the managed MSDN groups, it turns out that even the MS employees that read
the issues can't take the issues they read of on here back to the product
teams.



--
Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA


"Peter Meinl" wrote:
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> Vista files backup does not backup .EXE files (and other file types). This
> is a documented "feature".
> Does anybody understand the rationale behind this and how to come up with a
> usable backup scheme.
>
> My problem is that many of the files I want to protect with backup are .exe
> files (e.g. tool downloads, .exes I create) and are not suitable for an
> image backup.
>[/color]