Tusko

alright, here's the scoop.

my computer messed up, so after a lot of fiddling i got it to (sort of) work again, i installed a new win xp to a different directory. and that pretty much got her going.

so im all pumped, havent used my computer in a while. and it doesnt work too well.

ALOT of drivers are missing, some i don't have the disks for so it'll take a while to track down and try to reinstall them. mostly my sound card and video card.

programs don't work. i try to run some games and such, and they give me things like "missing .dlls" and some just won't plain run. (did a full install of Baldur's Gate 2, played for a while, now when i try to run it here, i guess it doesnt detect it's been installed, so it brings up the screen with the install option)

and my computer runs choppily. it never did before. but when i'm scrolling in Explorer or anywhere else, it scrolls really choppily.


anyway, my old (probably messed up) windows file is WINDOWS, which i renamed OLDWIN, the new directory i isntalled xp to is WINDOWB (which i think might be causing some problems) i can't quite figure out how to rename it to WINDOWS... ?anyone?

and also, is there an easier way (forget system restore, i disabled that a while before the crash) to get my old settings back? i figure alot of drivers and stuff are stuck somewhere in the OLDWIN folder. the only real information and files that were lost when i reinstalled windows to windowsB was anything on my desktop and stuff in my documents etc.

so, any help?