On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:25:23 -0400, kony wrote:

Exporting a few registry keys is mere minutes work.

What are those "few registry keys"?

So what if you have to export the classes keys and merge those too?

Although I have used Regedit, I have no idea how to begin doing what
you are proposing.

You make it sound so easy, albeit tedious.

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

If you give me the instructions I am willing to give it a try.

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

How can you when you only argue against it?

I told you that I misunderstood what you were proposing all along. I
thought when you used the term "clean install" that I would have to
install all my applications again. That's what I was arguing against.

If you give me the instructions (or point me to a website that has
them) for doing the Registry export, I am willing to have a go at it,
because I won't have to actually reinstall anything.

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 assume by that you mean create a new active partition of a new
installation of Win2K. That I can do and I can dedicate a complete
disk drive to it. Should I put SP4 on too?

I will do that and report back for the next step. I am trusting you
that the Registry exports will be straightforward, and not require me
to seek out the references to 100 different apps many of which have
different names in the Registry for the same app.



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