[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Instar:

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Originally posted by DavidG:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Perhaps it is time for a reformat and reinstall of windows for his PC.

This is one of the things that pisses me off about windows. As in why is this necessary?? It would be real nice if Windoes could clean itself up without me having to go through the insane amount of time needed to reinstall all my drivers and software.

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Basically, the process of installing and uninstalling software can mess the registry up. Windows does need better support of this (such as allowing defragging the registry by the built in defragger). If the registry gets wrecked, you'll need to go back to a save point or maybe reinstall everything. I do not know of many registry fixing programs, Windows could use a better utility for it though.

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I do repairs all the time. Usually the problems are caused by unapproved software installed by the PITA’s. And the registry is easy to repair in the NT Versions of windows. 9x is not so easy to repair, but can be fixed most of the time. Many 9x problems relate to the installer that came with them. There was a work around for it, but few people took the time to install programs correctly. Now there is a new installer that fixes the problem.

[ September 24, 2003, 12:29: Message edited by: Thermodyne ]