Re: Windows 2000 RE-install question
From: karl x y (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 07/18/02
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From: "karl x y" <jamescagney90210@excite.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:50:09 -0400
In my experience the ease and speed of installing windows 2000 depends on
the speed of the machine, whether or not something goes wrong to make the
machine unbootable, etc. I guess reinstalling might be worth a try to some
people, but parts of the bad system are going to be retained, and parts of
the system you wish to keep can potentially be lost. Maybe the Windows 2000
reinstall process is better than other Microsoft reinstaller technologies,
but I have lost countless hours attempting reinstalls / repairs on top of
various microsoft technologies such as Office 2000, Internet Explorer 6,
regedit, etc. and have found that they never ever fix my problem, just waste
my time.
"James" <w@w.com> wrote in message news:3D353DE0.46E18A1F@w.com...
> 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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