No can do.  Even if you have a D:\program files\whatever app, these installs change your registry, your system files, and other things we don't know.  If you did it your way nothing would work right.  There is no escaping the tedious task of reinstalling everything if you do a clean install of the OS.

>Hey...I'm hoping perhaps one of you can help me out. I have 2 hard drives. C
>& D. C houses my OS, Windows 98. I want to format drive C but I am concerned
>that doing so will affect programs on drive D as well, because some of these
>programs automatically installs files in the SYSTEM folder in drive C. Would
>it be enough to back up the SYSTEM folder, format drive C, reinstall Windows
>and then put back the SYSTEM folder? Any suggestions how to handle this?
>Thanks.

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