Cleansweep and/or uninstaller X screw things up.  Get Goback and you'll
almost never need them.  When Goback reverts your hard drive, it is as if
whatever was never there.  There is nothing left anywhere because the drive
has been rewritten to a time before the install.  Tracking installs with
uninstallers that do that slows the install, and is likely to cause
problems.  Jack is a very knowledgeable guy, but I have to disagree on this
one.


If you're going to install CleanSweep, Uninstaller, or some such, it
seems to be a good idea to install it right after the OS/OS updates so it
will track the installations of the other programs.
jack payton

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:17:27 -0700 "Joel M. Blackman" <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> I do the OS, then all the OS updates. The very next thing is Goback in
case
> something gets screwed up. It might be a good idea to copy the hard
disk at
> this point to a CD so you still have a clean registry. One of the last
> things is the anti-virus and/or system utilities, both of which can
> cause a lot of problems on installs.  I am not sure what good running
> scandisk would do between installs, but it can't hurt anything.  You
might even
> want to defrag between installs, but it will take a month of Sundays to

> install all your software that way.  If you can, get the most recent
copies of
> all your software so you don't need to be doing all the updates
separately.
> Keep an eye out for the version conflict manager so that all your OS
updates
> don't  get overwritten by older files.  You may want to reinstall all
the
> OS updates one more time after your software is installed, just in case

> newer files have been overwritten.
>
>
Original question:
> After having done another format and reinstall, I have two questions:

> Do others have an order of program installation, such as, first OS,
then
> antiviral program, then word processor, etc?
>
> Do others have a routine for mitigating problems, such as, running
> Scandisk between each program installation?
>
> Demetri Kolokotronis

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