How to "clean install" a small network

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This is a 2 computer network. If I want to switch the boxes: make the server
the client and vice versa, I imagine the fastest, easiest way to do it would
be to remove both network cards and (if necessary) network connections and
then install them fresh after the switch. Would that work? Or is there a
software solution in XP? Would that leave a lot of orphan registry entries?
 
BP said:
This is a 2 computer network. If I want to switch the boxes: make the
server the client and vice versa, I imagine the fastest, easiest way
to do it would be to remove both network cards and (if necessary)
network connections and then install them fresh after the switch.
Would that work? Or is there a software solution in XP? Would that
leave a lot of orphan registry entries?
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What?!

You have two computers on a network. You want to swap their functions..
Are you sayig one of them has two network cards and shares its connection
through ICS?
Or..

Well..

What ARE you saying?
 
Shenan Stanley said:
What?!

You have two computers on a network. You want to swap their functions..
Are you sayig one of them has two network cards and shares its connection
through ICS?
Or..

Well..

What ARE you saying?
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Sorry. Yes, serving box has 2 NICs, one for broadband one for LAN. Shares
broadband with the client through ICS. That box will now have one NIC and be
the client. A new box will be the new server, clean install OS - no problem
there. What do I need to do to the old server box to make it a client?
As a secondary question, if I wanted to start over and set up the local
network again "clean" how would one do that? I had a mainboard go bad and
did a repair install of XP but there were many weird glitches due to phantom
devices and duplicate registry entries. I have cleaned up fairly well but
keep getting a couple of long deleted network drives reappearing and slowing
down the shutdown. I thought that rather than editing the registry again it
might be easier to just "clean install" the network.
All of this in lieu of the inevitable clean install of XP.
 
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