Ian;
I understand your concept, but you are overlooking the fact that most
modern windows apps install "common" files and .dll files in the windows
directory so you would lose these when you deltree/re-install windows.
You would have to reinstall most of the apps anyway.
As far as the registry - Scanreg/restore would restore it,
but you still would still be missing some necessary files.
I use Goback by Roxio  on my win2k machine and can restore it to a previous
condition.
windows ME and XP have this (system restore) built in and it works pretty
well.
They do this by building a .BIN file containing compressed copy of all the
files on the harddrive.
The down side is it takes quite a large file to store this.
The gobackio.bin file on my 45 gig C drive is  4,096,000 KB

<>< Larry Fisk
         Fisk Computers
           Fruitvale, Idaho

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] W98 scanreg restore


> Tom, I think you might have missed my point. You said you reinstalled
> Windows but then had to reinstall some apps to re-establish their registry
> associations.
> This is precisely the point I was posting about, ie, is it possible to
avoid
> this?
> What I'm asking is, has anyone tried, or know if it's possible, to do a
> clean install of Windows, then do a scanreg /restore of a recent and
> error-free cabfile, which would contain all of the appropriate settings.

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