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
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----- 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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