Diane;
Just make sure during the reinstall when windows prompts you for an install
directory,
you reinstall into the same directory it was in - c:\windows by default
your program shortcuts,drivers and programs shouldn't be affected.
You should backup your user files anyway regardless of whether you
reinstall.

 Also after dealing with Lexmark, I would make sure you exhaust
every other option before reinstalling windows.
I would probably run the windows system file checker - SFC
to see if any windows files are corrupted.
Info on SFC here:
http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/start-142.shtml


<>< Larry Fisk
         Fisk Computers
           Fruitvale, Idaho
----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Kroeckel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 3:08 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Reinstalling Win98


> Dear Listers,
>
> I have been having a printer problem.  I called Lexmark and we finally
> decided that it's not the printer but my computer (printer prints fine on
> it's own, like making a copy).  They said I should reinstall Win98se.  I
> heard that it will wipe out everything on my computer.
>
> So what should I backup, besides my data, so I can minimize my problems
> reinstalling Win98se and all my programs?  What about my drivers?

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