On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:35:34 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Citizen Bob)
wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:45:03 -0400, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>> All you have to do is make a clean installation,
>
>Easy enough
>
>>export the appropriate registry keys
>
>How do you propose I do that? I have nearly 100 installed apps. Do you
>expect me to fish thru the Registry looking for every possible
>reference to them, including the classes, etc?

How much time have you spent so far on this drive
corruption? Hours, maybe longer considering all the time to
restore files and make more frequent backups least lose
data.

Exporting a few registry keys is mere minutes work. So what
if you have to export the classes keys and merge those too?
Remember, you are making a SECOND OS installation, it's not
like you lose anything if you accidentally cause same
problem on the new installation, and if done incrementally
could even help to narrow down what's causing it.



>
>>and copy over the installation folders and shortcuts for the start
>>menu.
>
>Easy enough. You also want to copy the profiles.

Ok, and?



>>Something else you can do is compare the clean
>>installation's system and driver files to your old one- the
>>apps should not need special drivers in most cases, save for
>>a few dealing with specific hardware.
>
>How do you propose I do that?

They're files. You can take two folders and compare what's
inside, particularly in smaller folders like
C:\WINNT\system32\drivers



>
>You make it sound so easy, albeit tedious.

You won't know till you try it, will you?

>But I have serious
>reservations about just how easy it is.

How can you when you only argue against it?

>But I am willing to listen to
>any constructive comments.

>If I can pull off a clean reinstall by
>merely doing the things you state above, then let's get started.

Ok, so have you started? My suggestion is the installation
on another partition or drive, done clean. Get that 100%
working, including drivers, then make a backup of it as you
will do at certain intervals so if something goes awry you
can just revert back without losing the entire installation.

I'm not claiming the whole process will be done in an hour
or two, but considering how long your present installation
has been used, a new one might last you till the end of
time...