"Bullwinkle. J. Moose" wrote in message
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I suggest that the next time you consider reformatting your hard drive,
you
set up at least an additional logical drive and place your programs there.
Then when you reformat and reinstall the os your programs are not
affected.

Not entirely true, since when you format the OS drive you'll also lose the
registry, which will contain most of the application settings.

Of course it's not that simple you need to save your system and system 32
directories from windows so you can copy back the library files that the
program installations put there.

Though even if you do that, you'll still need to reinstall the apps to
recreate the registry values.

HTH
-pk

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