I think that you MUST reinstall everything.....
IMHO, the problem is that Windows mix into the same dir (and subdirs) the
operating system files and application files...and when you delete \windows
dir, you are deleting some app's files too...
This is something that MS MUST work a lot into....
HTH.
Sergio.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 5:06 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.
> I'll put it another way:
> Windows is running extremely well and you've just saved your most recent
> cabfile from your sysbckup folder to a storage location. Suddenly you
have
> a very bad crash and are forced to reinstall Windows. You deltree
> C:\Windows and do a completely fresh install, thus losing all of your
> settings, which neccessitates reinstalling a zillion apps.
> My question: Is it possible to restore that 'most recent cabfile'? Would
> that not get Windows back to it's previous pre-crash condition?
>
> Ian Porter
> Computer Guys
> Arrowtown
> New Zealand
> [log in to unmask]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Simpson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] W98 scanreg restore
>
>
> > Yes. This does work! I was able to get rid of a very bad acting win98SE
> > and keep everything else on the computer by doing this. Before I did
> > this, the OS would not even run because there were certain files
> > missing. When I would try to start the machine, I would get a "System
> > Halted" message.
> >
> > I was able to use a startup disk to get into DOS and was able to deltree
> > Windows completely. After that, I just went into the standard
> > installation off of a CD and installed a "fresh" (clean) version of
> > Windows. Worked great, and didn't loose any information.
> >
> > The biggest problem was that I had to go back through and reinstall
> > every single program that was not part of Windows, so that the programs
> > would be registered with Windows.
> >
> > I honestly don't know what you mean by, "'refurbish' it with a
> > known-to-be-good cabfile". When you do the full, clean install, it would
> > already have (or should, anyway) a good cabfile.
> >
> > Tom
> >
>
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