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From: indra@brahms.amd.com (Indra Singhal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How to clean WIN.INI and WINDOWS directory?
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.181237.12821@amd.com>
Date: 29 Apr 91 18:12:37 GMT
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A rather brutal way (for the person doing it) is to reinstall Windows on
a different drive (if the masochistic user has a clean drive to install
it on) and then save the directory contents and compare what the bare
installation has and what it doesnt...

The Win.ini too can be 'diff'd or compared to look for all extraneous
gunk when can then be (carefully) edited out (after saving the
original). Took me a good 3 hours to do the last time I did it!

I agree, Windows is growing up and becoming a full OS and there need to
be tools to manage it.


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