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Originally posted by DrunkNigel:
This can easily be cured with a reformat + reinstalling windows.
reformatting is unecessary and evil!!!
just deltree your Windows directory and reinstall.
or, to be supa 1337, use 'move' to rename your Windows directory, like so :
move windows oldwin
cd \oldwin
del win.com
d:
setup
{ get windows reinstalled, drivers working, etc. }
From a Windows command prompt :
xcopy /h /e /c /k c:\oldwin\*.* c:\windows\
{ press 'n' every time you're prompted to overwrite. You'll probably just want to hold down the N key for ten minutes or so. }
that will restore your desktop, start menu, fonts, and any .DLLs not included with the standard Windows install, without overwriting any drivers or Windows DLLs.
Some apps will have to be reinstalled, some won't, but you'll have a clean install of Windows without too much hassle