Recently I was going through my Add/Remove window and I saw a couple items in there that I had already deleted (or so I thought)...so I tried to delete the item and when the uninstall program started it was going to uninstall a completely different program...one that I wanted to keep.......this has happened a couple times. It leads to believe my registry is kinda messed up. I did a registry check and it said "No Errors were Found". I have done a thourough disk scan and all that good stuff. My question is...if I reinstall Windows ME will it fix that problem ?? And in doing so, will it also get rid of my existing programs or will it just correct the problems in Windows ??
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- Thread starter FredJim
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You're in the wrong forum (95/98 - should be ME). Have you virus scanned? If no virus, I would tend to agree with you - entries in your registry are pointing to the wrong uninstall info.
Options as I see it:-
1. Boot from ME boot flopy and run scanreg /restore - pick a date before this problem started (if possible)
2. Use system restore - if enabled - same criteria as 1.
3. Backup your critical data, and do a clean (wipe disk first) resinstall of ME. Reinstall apps and restore data.
Options as I see it:-
1. Boot from ME boot flopy and run scanreg /restore - pick a date before this problem started (if possible)
2. Use system restore - if enabled - same criteria as 1.
3. Backup your critical data, and do a clean (wipe disk first) resinstall of ME. Reinstall apps and restore data.
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