Stupid Backup Routine!!!

I have Vista Ultimate, and last night suffered a hard disk problem. But that's okay, I have a backup!

Only the incredibly stupid, ignorant, incapable-of-disclosing-critical-information-in-their-application-and-help-screen-idiots up in
Redmond don't deem it necessary to include the Windows system directory in a "backup". That's a different kind of thing. Gee golly
whillickers, why didn't I think of that?!? It's so simple! "Backup" doesn't mean "backup". It just means "making a

So now I'm stuck having to do a complete re-install. I can't even do repair re-install because, surprise!, Microsoftinthehead left
that option out of Vista. And the ersatz repair re-install -- doing an "upgrade" from Vista to Vista -- refuses to proceed until I
uninstall Powershell...and I can't uninstall Powershell because it's one of the files that seems to have been munged.

I hope and pray with all my heart that I live long enough to see these clowns brought down. I am seriously considering junking every
bit of Windows hardware I have in my home, and 20+ years of experience with Windows in favor of an operating system that isn't
designed by a committee of clowns with individual IQs in the submoron range.

- Mark