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Will reinstallg NT erase current applcns

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by gohpo

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Hi,
My notebook's NT 4 (SP6) is corrupt as I keep
getting "Rasman DLL error" whenever I login.
I cant use its TcpIP functions so I thought of fixing it by deleting TcpIP (so tt I can reinstall it back). It got worse as it wont allow me to delete the TcpIP completely as it says "Altavista 98" tunnel software has to
be deleted 1st. I cant delete the Altavista 98 driver/software too.

I know a friend who reinstalled his Win98 &
his MSOffice, Norton Utils, various icons & applications are still intact after that. Can
I do the same with Win NT 4 server? I have
no prior backup(like Norton Ghost) whatsoever

My notebook is a dual-boot Win98 & Win NT 4
system. My Win98 still boots up fine on the notebook so I dont think it's a hardware fault (as the vendor has checked it too). No viruses nor disk errors (via scandisk) were found. My notebook came preinstalled with Win98.

Thanks very much in advance

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by parbo

Bad luck with NT40. Once you reinstall NT it creates a new registry so none of the appplications that had important keys in the registry will have those left. That means reinstalling them. This is also true for W98 but depending on the application you dont have to reinstall it.

by kenalmoore

You can try running 'winnt32 /b from the run command. You DON'T want to do a clean install or reformat. Just do a repair. OK
This is not a quarrentee that all apps will work when finished, but you will not lose any of the other data. Also do a rdisk /s before starting. Reistall service pack when finished.
Good Luck.

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