Installation questions

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Tim Walters

1.
After various crashes over time, I have had to reinstall W2K four times. Can
I just delete the subdirs In Documents and Settings corresponding to the
earlier installations, or do I have to do this in a special way?

2.
I assume the best time to rearrange the drive letters is just after an
installation. Should each change be followed by a restart, or can they all
be made in a single session?

3.
In the network to which I belong, after the central computer has rebooted,
and I try to access it, a box comes up, asking for my user name and
password. These are actually both blank. Is there any way of accessing the
main computer directly; ie stopping the box from appearing?

Thanks to anyone who replies.

Tim
 
1. If you did a complete reinstall, there should be no remnants leftover
from previous installations. Did you do a repair or a reinstall using the
current Windows on the drive. If you used the current Windows and
reinstalled on top, that only masks the underlining problems of why you keep
reinstalling. More than likely some registry settings are following from
reinstall to reinstall, and some files/apps, and corrupting your new
reinstall.

If you did a reinstall over the top of a previous Windows installation, you
should use Control Panel | User Acounts and delete the user account. Make
sure the account has been deleted from the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Under that key are the SIDs belonging to each user on the system. Each SID
has a ProfileImagePath value associated with it and should reflect where the
user's profile resides on the hard disk. After deleting all users you wish
to delete, make sure that no SID reflects any of theose paths. If some
remain, delete them.

If you did a format and then reinstall, there shouldn't be anything there
but your current Users.

2. Best time is to boot in Safe Mode and re-assign drive letters after
installation and before installing on any drives (if local). As long as
each drive is not being used (or is a network drive), there should be no
reason to reboot after each modification.

3. It all depends on how the server shared drive is setup up. If you need
to provide credentials to use, you will be prompted. If the drive (shared
folder on server) is not setup for login to access, you will not be
prompted.
 
NewScience said:
1. If you did a complete reinstall, there should be no remnants leftover
from previous installations. Did you do a repair or a reinstall using the
current Windows on the drive. If you used the current Windows and
reinstalled on top, that only masks the underlining problems of why you keep
reinstalling. More than likely some registry settings are following from
reinstall to reinstall, and some files/apps, and corrupting your new
reinstall.

If you did a reinstall over the top of a previous Windows installation, you
should use Control Panel | User Acounts and delete the user account.
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Sorry. I can't find a seciont called "User Accounts". There's one called
"Usres and Passwords" but it doesn't look as if this coudl be what you're
talking about. Where exactly is it?

Thanks for your reply.

Tim


Make
 
That maybe it. I'm logged into my Windows XP partition and have to reboot
into Windows 2000.
Open that and see if there is an option to Remove/Delete when you click on a
user account.

Then follow the rest of the instructions in checking the registry and
C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME].
 
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