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| 153645 | 2003-06-19 10:54:00 | Dear Rob, Just a comment re Stan Miastkowski's note in NZ PC World April Page 102 . Can I assume that during a reload, a LATER version of a Windows program (say DirectX) would be deleted and replaced by an earlier version? If so, when reinstalling Windows from your original CD, you would be losing any updates you may have downloaded from Microsoft (Probably several hours of Internet time) . Probably the lesser of two evils of course, if you are getting the blue screen of death fairly frequently . Regards Frank Coulter |
FrankC (4052) | ||
| 153646 | 2003-06-19 11:17:00 | it depends. if you format and reinstall then it will back to standard windows. you will have to update/install everything again. if you do an "over the top reinstall" you will keep all data but it will revert most system files back to standard which means you will have to redo all the updates again (and to top it off windows update site may think some broken updates are actually install and won't offer them for download). the draw back of doing an over the top install is all the rubbish is left behind which can cause problems later on. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 153647 | 2003-06-19 12:02:00 | > If so, when reinstalling Windows from your original CD, you would be losing any updates you may have downloaded from Microsoft (Probably several hours of Internet time). You can download the updates and save them ready to install after a format or whatever. Have a look at this thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) for some details. |
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