Reinstalling Windows XP

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From: Robert Bodling (RobertBodling_at_austin.rr.com)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:50:18 GMT

Can you reinstall Xp over itself? If XP is malfunctioning, what would
happen if you run the install with XP currently installed? I know
with Win98, you could simply delete win.* and the user.dat files and
it would reinstall itself over the current operating system correcting
previous flaws.

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