re: windows me unimstall infomation
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 8:31 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6528 messages posted)
Well, a lot of uninformed people make a lot of comments, but I have worked on thousands
of computers since Windows 1.0. When the repair install came along, it was a nice
feature because it did work a fair number of times. However, MS warns that it will
not always be successful. Why?? Because no one can perform miracles and replace/repair
data that the system may need which was added by user installed applications for
instance, nor can it distingush between good data and bad data that needs to be added
from the old install, to bring the users old install back to original status..
So sometimes, in my experience, a repair install will fail approx one third of the
time. It just depends on what damage was done to the old install. Saving uninstall
data is only useful for times when you are upgrading a "good" install from one version
of Windows to another, say like Win 98 FE to SE, or SE to ME, or even Win 95 to Win
98 etc. Then it turns out that it doesn't work well with your hardware, or applications
and/or other reasons so you want your old version of Windows back.
Sometimes I will attempt a repair install to see if that fixes the problem only because
it may spare me, or my customers the hassle of reinstalling all of their applications
etc. If a repair install fails to fix the issues you were having, then you have
no choice but to install clean and start over..
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