re: How do I reformat and reinstall Win 98 without losing settings
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 9:54 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by grunt
(303 messages posted)
Thanks Dex, I may have written that wrong, 1. I didn't mean to write "The Best
Way..." 2. I don't mean to re-install the WHOLE reg file, that is why I suggested
only the Software part and (it would be best if he knew about the registry, that
way he could pull his settings later when / after he re-installed windows,(it is
slow, but I have done it maybe 2 times)).
Thanks though, for clearing that up.
On Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 3:21 pm, DEX wrote:
>Ken
>Or you can do this..
>Reinstall win98se to i.e. C:\>Windows2 if you have the room on the HD...or to
D:
>drive if you have one.
>But to restore the reg file would not be a good ideal.
>It runs the machine and holds all the info for ALL the programs on the machine.
>You can inport ( i.e. email address book,but take care with any email that you inport)
>most of the items in to the new install but you will need to reinstall your programs
>but you would need to do that anyway if you reformated the drive and started over.
>This will give a clean install and when your done you can remove the OLD win98 in
>Explore but don't do it right away make sure you have all the items you want from
>it 1st.
>Most virus programs will not cross over to the new install but that would be the
>1st program that you would want to install like AVG to keep your machine clean.
>Then the next thing you want to install would be a firewall like ZoneAlarm or OutPost
>both free,see link below, for OutPost
>Like most of us that's the 1st thing you want to try out would be the Internet after
>you have it setup.
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>
>AVG Free Edition and get:
>
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>2.AVG e-mail Scanner
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>5.Free Virus Database Updates
>6.Automatic Update feature
>7.Easy-To-Use Interface
>8.Automatic Healing of infected files
>9.AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files
>9a.Plus you can run it under DOS with 32bit format...
>9b And it puts Norton/McAfee to shame.........
>9c You will need a e-mail address to get you SN # to install it.
>
>Download from http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
>------------------------------------------------------
>OutPost Firewall software
>***see demo on web site, why you should have one running on your machine if you
>go on the Internet/WWJ.
>
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>
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