On 01/26/2014 08:06 AM, Max wrote:


Anyway..... one year on, and I'm again re-installing Windows, but on a
different PC. This time I completely removed and created a new (the
only) partition. Did the install business, yet once again, I happened
to find an entry which again proved it's not starting completely from
scratch!

How on earth?! I thought I had definitely vanquished all trace of
Windows first, this time. I mean, if you had a new PC wih no operating
system at all, and had to put Windows on for the first time, it HAS to
build a new regisitry from nothing then, so......

I'm confused!

Thanks
Max




If you installed XP on a newly formatted partition
then there are /no/ previous registry entires.

You gave no example of the entry you thought was left over from the
previous installation. It's possible, if you are referring to the
computer name...that the mac address was picked up from your router.