On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:57:36 -0700, Bruce Chambers <bchambers@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>Reputable, customer-service aware OEMs, like Dell and Gateway, do
>provide a full OEM installation CD, that does permit custom
>installations and repairs.
Reminds me to ask what I've meant to for more than a week:
Can Windows setup be run with a command-line switch that sponsors a conservative, broken
files-rewriting and/or otherwise "repair" install, cutting out two or three acts of the whole
Klingon opera?
I'm not speaking of a System Restore to a prior saved state, (which can too easily, and
mysteriously, be disabled anyway, to one's surprise at the last minute,) but an
options-conserving reinstall that /notices/and/fixes/ System files gone bad, and otherwise
doesn't try too hard to change things. ME (and 98SE before, if memory serves) had a utility to
fix missing or broken System files from within a live Windows session; if there's the
equivalent in Vista, that's all I need to know here (I haven't found any hint that such
exists.)
My system's fine now; this is for future use.
Vista home basic, 32-bit on a Dell Inspiron 1501