win 98 folders

Win 98 se clean format new install. when I open prog
files - only ms98 prog are listed. I have backup of old
computer on maxtor 40 g usb hard drive. This backup is in
two different directories because when I did the backup I
could not do it in one file because I got the message
that the file was too large. So, I first backed up all
prog. files. next I backed up all files on the drive
except program files, This worked, I can see everything,I
think.
After instal of win 98se I restored the prog files first
then I restored the rest of the hard drive (except the
original windows, where the links were). When I found
there were no listing in the prog. files I did a
reinstall of win.98se thinking it would find the programs
and set up shortcuts and put them in the program
directory. It didn't

I need a shortcut to put all these links in proper
places. I really do not want to do this mannually for all
programs.

ps: the backups are on 2 separate files on this computer
Any ideas? thanks.

You can't simply restore the backed up program files to the new system - you
will be missing all the registry entries and system files that the programs
need. You must re-install these applications to the newly installed system.
Then you can restore your data files.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
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Win 98 se clean format new install. when I open prog
files - only ms98 prog are listed. I have backup of old
computer on maxtor 40 g usb hard drive. This backup is in
two different directories because when I did the backup I
could not do it in one file because I got the message
that the file was too large. So, I first backed up all
prog. files. next I backed up all files on the drive
except program files, This worked, I can see everything,I
think.
After instal of win 98se I restored the prog files first
then I restored the rest of the hard drive (except the
original windows, where the links were). When I found
there were no listing in the prog. files I did a
reinstall of win.98se thinking it would find the programs
and set up shortcuts and put them in the program
directory. It didn't

I need a shortcut to put all these links in proper
places. I really do not want to do this mannually for all
programs.

ps: the backups are on 2 separate files on this computer
Any ideas? thanks.

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:54:44 -0700, "Richard"
wrote:

Win 98 se clean format new install. when I open prog
files - only ms98 prog are listed. I have backup of old
computer on maxtor 40 g usb hard drive. This backup is in
two different directories because when I did the backup I
could not do it in one file because I got the message
that the file was too large. So, I first backed up all
prog. files. next I backed up all files on the drive
except program files, This worked, I can see everything,I
think.
After instal of win 98se I restored the prog files first
then I restored the rest of the hard drive (except the
original windows, where the links were). When I found
there were no listing in the prog. files I did a
reinstall of win.98se thinking it would find the programs
and set up shortcuts and put them in the program
directory. It didn't

I need a shortcut to put all these links in proper
places. I really do not want to do this mannually for all
programs.

ps: the backups are on 2 separate files on this computer
Any ideas? thanks.


I assume you are refering to the Start Menu? If you know the exact
location where the shortcuts are in their backup location are are
usable LNK files, then you could create a batch file to restore them.
With more specifics, more help could be given.

XCOPY X:\Some\Path\SomeFile\*.lnk C:\Windows\StartMenu\ /s

The above is a general format and will work assuming DOS has rights to
access the location of the backup files.

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