Just a Heads Up: Reformat Time.

[Howard_Casto]

This really isn't news, but since I get a lot of questions about my apps I just thought I would let everyone know.  I got a new video card a couple of months ago and ever since I installed it, my windows install has gotten more corrupted.  So I reformatted.  I haven't did a fresh install on this pc in 8 years, so I have a TON of stuff to get back in place.  Right now it's email and internet and that's about it.  So asking questions about support or ect. is useless for at least a week.  I have a legitimate 500gb of data/programs to reinstall. 

[Howard_Casto]

Well that was an adventure.  It took far less time than I thought... other than the windows install itself, I've only put 2 or 3 hours into it spread out over a few days.  I'm very impressed in regards to how app/game developers have learned to stop relying on the stupid windows registry.  I only had to reinstall a couple of games.... most worked just fine.  Ironically it was some of the newer emulators that needed reinstalled.  Dolphin and the like have a lot of dependencies. 

I've also got to say that my apps aren't nearly as difficult to install as people claim.  From a fresh windows 10 install with NOTHING else I simply had to run the dx4vb app hosted on my website and run any of my programs as administrator the first time.  That was it.  DirectX was happy, windows was happy, ect.  I had zero install issues with stuff like mamehooker and checkered flag and outrun fxt.  I didn't have any issues on my main mame cab or my racing cab either, but I had installed visual studio 6 on those first, so I did this as an experiment.  I'm not complaining about other people's difficulty, I'm just sayin'.......

Anyway, experiments aside, other than moving some files around I'm back up with a fully working pc that has my development tools and photoshop installed.  So ask away.

Sorry to clutter the board with unnecessary stuff.