[Tihiy]

Here is a small registry trick i've discovered.
With it you can reinstall all hardware drivers without a problem (you do not have to click a lot of hardware install dialogs).
It can be very useful when you're deploying Win 98 image on different computers or installing your custom Windows version.

Attached zip file contains 2 reg files:
- reload.reg: makes 98 believe that it is installing itself first time.
- delhdw.reg: removes current hardware entries and configuration.

Warning: if you have WinME or 98SE2ME with sysdm.cpl from WinME, you'll have to reboot your computer 2 or more times due to stupid ME setup behavior. With sysdm.cpl from 98, your computer won't reboot!

I hope someone will find this files useful.
 newconfig.zip (472bytes)
Number of downloads: 180

[RainyShadow]

Very nice, good work Tihiy
Do you know if this method leaves currently installed drivers in the Windows folder, or driver files get deleted (like when removing devices in safe mode) ?

[Tihiy]

It should leave driver files - just modifies registry entries. I had VMWare drivers installed and it catched them without reinstall.

[RainyShadow]

Great
Thanks for your quick reply