blah789

There's no system restore utility in 2000. If you need to retrieve the file, use a file undelete utility. I'd pull the plug on the PC where the file was residing on, and remove the hard drive and insert it into a USB enclosure and plug that into another PC and attempt the recovery from there. That greatly decreases the chances of accidentally overwriting the file. (windows does a lot of background read and write operations, even when idle, so it could overwrite the deleted data (deleted data isn't actually deleted: its entry in the "table of contents" is deleted, but the data sits there on the hard disk and its space is marked as usable - as long as nothing else is written over it and it's not too fragmented, it can be recovered.))

P.S: Using undelete utility is meant for files that are unique (like your personal files or your office documents). If it's just a system file, then you can just grab it off the Windows CD to reinstall it.