M
Mike
I just bought a nice new hard drive for my computer. All prepped and ready to
go. But this time instead of doing a clone copy as I had in the past I want
to do a clean install of XP. I've basically had the same install since I
upgraded from Win98. The registry is a cluttered mess and other garbage files
left behind from software installs / uninstalls / upgrades, various mishaps,
blunders, and oops, running the repair console a couple times, etc., over the
years. The one thing I'm dreading the most is having to go through all the
security / software updates since I originally installed XP. My copy of XP
Home is old, sheesh, it's barely SP1. So I'm looking at, what?, a couple
hundred or so updates? OUCH! I don't suppose there's any way around that?
go. But this time instead of doing a clone copy as I had in the past I want
to do a clean install of XP. I've basically had the same install since I
upgraded from Win98. The registry is a cluttered mess and other garbage files
left behind from software installs / uninstalls / upgrades, various mishaps,
blunders, and oops, running the repair console a couple times, etc., over the
years. The one thing I'm dreading the most is having to go through all the
security / software updates since I originally installed XP. My copy of XP
Home is old, sheesh, it's barely SP1. So I'm looking at, what?, a couple
hundred or so updates? OUCH! I don't suppose there's any way around that?