Oh, it's a pain! And I'm not saying this is your only possible solution or that it's a solution at all. Just a thought that comes up when a computer starts getting flakey.

I mainly do a good backup to my server, then I go through all the apps I use and think about any config data that I will have to reset. I back that up or write it down. You can lose things you forget about - like if you run MSDS and have Favorites set up, those would always get wiped out because I'd invariable forget about them. But I've never lost anything important. You mainly have to just look at the programs you have installed and think awhile on each one and what might need to be reconfigured. Other than that, I have no magic bullets for this task.

>Hi Russell
>You said:
>When's the last time you reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled everything? It's a Windows machine, after all. I'm not sure what could be going on, but if my machine starts getting flakey and I haven't reformatted in awhile, I start considering that possibility.
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>I was wondering if you have any methodology for determining what has to be reinstalled?
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>Currently I've got 4 pc's and a laptop all connected by a peer-to-peer network. Old projects are kept on "old" pc's, and that works fairly well. The only one I want to reformat the hard drive on, is the one with vfp9 on it. However, it also has a lot of other developement stuff on it. The weeding out process boggles my mind.
>Would appreciate your thoughts on this.
>Bill Wright