> At 01:41 PM 6/14/2006, Diane Poremsky typed:
> >I don't usually reformat the ones the kids, phil get or that i setup
> >for family - i
> >just go through add/remove and remove the crap stuff and
> delete stuff off
> >the HD. i don't want to miss a driver and then have to talk
> them through
> >fixing it. With DVD burners preinstalled, i also don't want
> to lose the
> >preinstalled burner software - it meets their limited needs.
From: Wayne Johnson
> Ditto this only 110% but I'd like to add why throw away a perfectly
> good CD key when you can do the above & run MsConfig to cleanup the
> startup items unless you're dying to wipe the thing. I don't know
> about you but I can find other things to occupy my time that I
> actually want to do. ;-)
Diane and Wayne,
Thanks for the input. I will follow your advice and trim the fat with
add/remove and msconfig. I hated to think of the time wasted re-installing
windows and all the software and was somewhat worried about the driver
issue.
Jim Maki
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