Re: General instructions to re-install Windows XP

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"tcarp" wrote:
[....] Is there a checklist (e.g. make as complete a list of all the
applications installed)?

A partial checklist is in:
Start | Settings | Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs

That is a list of programs that were installed. In addition to that
are the programs which can be executed but didn't need installation
that may be listed in C:/Program Files as .exe files.

There may also be various browser plug-ins listed in your browser.

Don't forget to back up your email files and your Favorites (Booknotes)
file, too.

[.......] I have a friend who will also journey
into the reinstall jungle with me who has a Lenova (where there
was no CD but it looks like they put something on a HD partition).

That System Restore partition contains the image of the hard drive
as it came from the factory - without your data files, without any
programs which you may have installed since then, and WITH the
trialware junk that OEMs put on their machines. Don't use that
System Restore unless you've backed up ALL your data and any
programs which you've installed. Most people, after a couple months,
just reformat that partition and use it for data storage.

*TimDaniels*


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