Re-installing problems

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I recently had a crash due to Norton Ghost. Re-installed winxp fresh
installation but now trying to install other programs and some of them want
to install to my old user account e.g. C:\Documents and settings\wrong
user\local settings\application data etc.

Anyone with ideas?
 
pjbruce said:
I recently had a crash due to Norton Ghost. Re-installed winxp fresh
installation but now trying to install other programs and some of them want
to install to my old user account e.g. C:\Documents and settings\wrong
user\local settings\application data etc.

Anyone with ideas?
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Just a question: if you did a "fresh installation" - which would mean
a clean installation - the system shouldn't have any "old user
account".

Do you mean you did a "repair installation"?
 
Sorry, yes of course a repair installation.

PD43 said:
Just a question: if you did a "fresh installation" - which would mean
a clean installation - the system shouldn't have any "old user
account".

Do you mean you did a "repair installation"?
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pjbruce said:
Sorry, yes of course a repair installation.
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There is still something odd about your description.

As PD43 suggests, a "fresh install" (what usually is called a "clean
install") formats the drive and thus there wouldn't be any old user
accounts present.

A "repair install" will replace the system files with the files on the
XP CD used for the Repair Install, but *should* leave your applications
and settings intact. If that's what you did, you shouldn't have to
reinstall your applications.

If you decided to reinstall Windows because you attempted to restore
your disk from a corrupted Ghost image (and you don't have another,
good, Ghost image to use), you probably should (a) back up whatever data
files you can and then (b) do a clean install. Following the clean
install, you can reinstall your applications and data to wherever you like.

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