re: windows me unimstall infomation
Friday, October 3, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6528 messages posted)
Windows ME is dumb, or at least the engineers were dumb. It doesn't know the difference
between an upgrade from an older version of Windows and a repair reinstall of the
same version. It will look like an upgrade to the Windows installers even though
it is the same version. Therefore, in a repair install on Win 98 (ME is Win 98 by
the way), the option to save uninstall files is useless since you were trying to
repair Windows in the first place. You can delete the uninstall files. It isn't
a whole Windows install anyway. It's just the old critical files, old drivers, reg
files and other app files that may have been needed or changed before the new files
were installed. All the uninstall does is dump those old files back into the repair
install or more specifically, return your machine to it's previous state. It doesn't
actually "replace" the whole repair install with the old original one.
If you find that the repair install doesn't work right either, uninstalling the repair
install won't solve anything and can fail anyway. In that case, you would have to
start over and install clean..
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