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Langalist: When a Win7 “no reformat reinstall” is not the way to go
Posted on May 6, 2019 at 02:08 CDT by woody • Comment in the ForumsFred Langa’s back with more advice about wiping out your system when you re-install Win7. It isn’t as simple as it seems.
He also looks into System Restore on non-system drives.
LangaList out this morning to Plus members in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.16.0.
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