At 10:00 AM 7/13/2005, Pete Holsberg typed:
Hi, Wayne. Did you see questions 2 and 3??
Yes, why did you want me to answer those as well? ;-)
2) By restoring the image, won't I be restoring the old
registry?
Yes.
I've been lead to belive that starting with a
reinstall is the best way to get rid of a registry that has
incorrect paths and/or references.
Best way, maybe but there are registry cleaning tools out there.
3) Is there any easy way to do a clean reinstall and then
get all my applications and data without having to
reinstall each application and copy the data from a data
disk?
Without reinstalling & copying data back? I don't think so. Even then
you'll probably create some erroneous reg entries anyway. I highly
recommend a Registry Cleaning tool if it's that big a deal for you. I
believe that with today's "modern" machines that the contention is that so
what if you have a few erroneous entries as they shouldn't slow the booting
of your computer or the operation of Windows enough for you to actually
notice. It is my understanding that a fragmented registry is far worse than
a few bad entries. I suppose one could use the old MSFT RegClean
<http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,4666,00.asp> which
even tho it's not support has never been reported as doing any harm that I
know of. Norton Utilities WinDoctor which would do the same thing but I've
sworn off most if not all Symantec stuff. I use Resplendent Registrar
<http://www.resplendence.com/docs/pp.dll> which has many reg tweaks builtin
as well as the ability to defragment & edit the registry even remotely
across a lan. I like it so much that I have the paid version & use it with
my XpPe builds. There is a freeware version available at the above site as
well & I think it does everything except the remotely part that the paid
version does.
FWIW if you'd tell us what your goal is then it would making answering the
questions easier. If you're doing only one machine that's been in use for a
while then I would just clean it but if you were getting ready to set up
quite a few machines for a client & they wanted them all the same way then
I would do the clean install of everything [OS & apps] on 1 machine then
image it to do the restore that image on the others. Now if you're adding a
bunch of machines & want to clone an existing machine that has been in use
for a while then you'd better do more than just clean the registry such as
emptying the recycle bin, get rid of TIF [temp internet files] & all
history lists. So as you can see there is more than one right answer
depending on what you plan to achieve.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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