 | By Fred Langa The simplest path to restoring your ideal system setup is to use disk imaging. In the time it takes to finish a cup of coffee, Windows and all your apps can be perfectly reinstalled, tuned, customized, and ready to rock. |
Benefits of periodic Windows reinstallations
Reader Jeff Grant needs a clean start with his three-year-old laptop and wants to know more about using disk imaging to speed and simplify the reinstallation process:
- “In a couple of recent columns (Woody Leonard’s brief response in the Dec. 4 Known Issues column and Fred Langa’s column in the same issue), there was a brief discussion about periodically reinstalling Windows. I have been around computers for many years, but I have never done this. I would love to have more detailed answers to the following questions:
1. Once I’ve reinstalled Windows and then reloaded my data (with Ghost or another [disk-imaging] product), will I need to reinstall all of the various applications I use, or will they operate as usual from the data copied and reloaded with Ghost?
2. When reinstalling Windows, are there any remnants from the previous installation or data that I should deal with manually?
3. Does the Ghost process copy things such as the Registry, or are we starting with a new Registry even after reloading data from Ghost?
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