Reinstall wins 98 se

Hi All,

I am going to reinstall Wins 98se, and would like to know if i would have to
reinstall other applications (eg. MS applications) afterthe OS is done?

Is there any way to reinstall the OS and the rest remain unchanged?

Please help. Thank you very much.

Zoe

Zoe wrote:

Hi All,

I am going to reinstall Wins 98se, and would like to know if i would have
to reinstall other applications (eg. MS applications) afterthe OS is done?

Is there any way to reinstall the OS and the rest remain unchanged?

Please help. Thank you very much.

Zoe

Not in my experience. I have been able to get partial and flakey
application restoral by saving and restoring the registry. It may not be
worth the effort.

--
JosephKK
Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens.Â*Â*
--Schiller

You can run the W98SE installation from within Windows and none of your
existing installed applications will be affected.

However, this doesn't really qualify as a 're-installation' of the OS and
might not achieve whatever it is that you are trying to do.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
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Hi All,

I am going to reinstall Wins 98se, and would like to know if i would have
to
reinstall other applications (eg. MS applications) afterthe OS is done?

Is there any way to reinstall the OS and the rest remain unchanged?

Please help. Thank you very much.

Zoe

"Zoe" wrote in message
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I am going to reinstall Wins 98se, and would like to know if i would have
to
reinstall other applications (eg. MS applications) afterthe OS is done?
Is there any way to reinstall the OS and the rest remain unchanged?

Yes, because when the instal routine detects an
existing installation you are prompted to decide whether
to reuse the old Registry or not. If so, all application
file references in the old Registry go into the new one.

This poses the question (which Win98 does not ask)
why you are reinstalling the Operating System?
90 per cent of the time, we reinstal because something
is unfixably wrong with the old Registry -- so deciding
to keep the old Registry exposes us to the risk of
keeping the flaws which made us need to reinstal in
the first place. It usually saves time to bite the
bullet and reinstal all our applications as well. Once
we get a good installation of the OS, and back it up
appropriately (see www.xxcopy.com) it ought to last
for several years.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)