Reinstalling Windows 98

[AJLintern]

When you reinstall Win98 do you have to also reinstall all the programs on it? I suspect you do It's just my mum's PC is acting rather slow and the scanner doesn't work even though I've reinstalled the software several times

[agent006]

Yes. and all the drivers. Mind you delete all the irellevent crap that's in the program files directory after you've re-installed.

[meeja]

If you having to re-install, wouldn't it make sense to upgrade to a newer version of Windows? (2000 or XP)

[plotloss]

If you are installing W98 on top of itself it shouldnt be neccesary to install all the programs again unless of course you are formatting.

[agent006]

plotloss said:

If you are installing W98 on top of itself it shouldnt be neccesary to install all the programs again unless of course you are formatting.

It writes a new registry, so your programs are all still there, but they won't work.