[Gandalph]

Originally posted by Wardad:
SJ, You back up the registry?

I only backup my Malfador Machinations folder, the documents I create, and the few other things I download.

I worked with some techs who were dedicated gamers. They wiped their hard drive clean 3 times a year and started over with a fresh copy of Win95 (Win98 too?).
That's a little to much work for me. I'd hate to spend hours on-line updating winblows, directx, and norton security.

Back when I used Win9x, I did the same thing but at 6 month intervals. Windows is a garbage collector and if you are constantly downloading, installing, uninstalling, testing demos, etc., it gets pretty bad pretty quick. It was much easier to just start fresh and, with the OEM push install disk, less time consuming then trying to solve the multiple problems created.