Increasing speed of computer

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I have not tried this, but it makes sense to me?

Subject: Re: Can I copy just the OS from the HP Recovery CDs??
Date: Sunday, February 04, 2001 4:24 PM

Actually.. once you have restored from a recovery disk... all the files you
need to do a clean install of the OS are ALREADY on your computer..  They
are in C:\Windows\Options\Cabs.

Just copy them to a directory (doesn't matter what you call it) under your
root directory.  Then delete everything (yes, everything) except for that
directory.   You won't be able to delete the directories Windows and Program
files.. so rename them to WinOld and ProgOld.

Reboot from a MS-DOS disk.. go to your directory with all the cab files in
it.. run setup.exe, install to C:\Windows and, assuming you have all your
necessary driver files, you will be good to go.  And don't forget to delete
WinOld and ProgOld.

you are installing the same OS that came with your computer, so it is
perfectly legal.  It's kind of a pain in the ass way to do things but I've
used this procedure successfully many times on my HP and IBM Laptops[color=CC3300]WARNING[/color]

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@Mikeymike

I dunno, when I reinstall drivers, I always am offered to look in C:\windows\options\CABS in W98.




"re: that other way to reinstall Win98 -

"I don't know if the cabs are there, I doubt it though, considering Win98 always asked for the CD when installing new stuff unless you did a few registry tweaks. If it had the CABs on disk already why not pick the files it needs from there?"

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@mikeymike

 Yes it was from HP recovery disks the point being (to speed up computers) to eliminate all the JUNK that comes with Hewlett Packard software and just wind up with a bare windows box. (well almost)

 

Is your Win98 setup your own, ie. did you install it to a newly-formatted partition with a normal Win98 setup CD, or is it a recovery CD job of some company's install?