Re: Windows 2000 RE-install question

From: James (w@w.com)
Date: 07/17/02 

From: James <w@w.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:50:24 +0100

huh?
reinstalling is easy, only takes 15 mins of (unattended) work.....
Settings are retaianed, no problem.

x y wrote:

> I could be wrong, but I would ordinarily not try this. It will definitely
> leave all sorts of dead files on your hard drive. If you are actually able
> to preserve any of your settings, I would have to wonder whether the
> portions of the registry and/or files that were preserved are corrupted.
> There would always be a nagging doubt in my mind whether something
> undesirable remained, instead of the assurance that I would want to feel
> after spending so much of my personal time reinstalling Windows.
>
> "Lamar Thomas" <lamart@[-NOSPAM-]aldon.com> wrote in message
> news:Oh7QqnNLCHA.1604@tkmsftngp09...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I an running windows 2000 Pro. on a Dell desktop. A few weeks ago I
> started
> > getting an error msg. whenever I open an application stating that Explorer
> > had crashed and was shutting down. Once I click "OK", the dialog box goes
> > away and my app opens just fine and I can go to work.
> >
> > I was thinking about "Re-installing" Windows 2000 Pro. "ON TOP" of it's
> self
> > like the old days with Windows 9x. With Windows 9x that would fix the
> > problem most of the time.
> >
> > My question is can you do that with Windows 2000 and not lose all of your
> > settings?
> >
> > Thanks for any and all input.
> >
> > Lamar
> >
> >
> >

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