"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > That's exactly what it does. The MS versioning system is, er, lacking. > Repairing XP brings it back to the install state. What about additional binaries and changed configuration files (and the registry) that point to these (possibly incompatible) binaries? I only trust the installer to bring Windows back to the install state, and only after formatting the system partition. Regards Ingemar