>>Reinstalling a system isn't the end of the world either. Granted it
>>took a whole day plus a few hours off the next couple spent reinstalling
>>or configuring things that you take for granted. But it's a small price
>>to pay for the benefits of starting clean every once in a while...
>
>I think I need that reinstall myself. How do you do it? Copy to backup, format, and reinstall everything, or just run the setup program on the CD again (followed by SP3, of course...)?
For what it is worth, make sure that you have the install disks for any Win95 programs that you have subsequenlty upgraded. I had problems reinstalling several of my apps. I had to find the older versions' disks and reinstall them first, before reinstalling the upgrades. I also went thru the registry searching for serial numbers and copied them to a paper file folder. Having the older serial numbers, helped bypass some of the reinstalls.HTH //:^)