DM> In that case, what files would I need to keep to retain things
 DM> like video and sound card drivers and settings - win.ini ?
 DM> system.ini ? It's a PITA restoring all those sound card and
 DM> other settings and drivers - a pain that I wish to avoid, if
 DM> possible.

  Jeez! Don't do that!

  At the very least, save *all* the ini files, and the pif files, 
and all the dll files in c:\windows and c:\windows\system both ... or
you'll have to restore the whole bloody thing.

 DM> When I boot WfWG, the program manager starts, but there are no
 DM> program groups, and there is an error, "Progman - An error has
 DM> occurred" If I select close at that point, I get "Application
 DM> Error - Progman caused GPF at loc ....."

  Either progman.exe is corrupt, or win.ini or system.ini is stuffed.
If you reinstall wfwg, it'll leave them untouched. You'll have to delete 
progman.exe and unpack the original from the floppies using expand.exe.

  If this doesn't work, Windows should have saved an old version of 
win.ini and system.ini as win.bak and system.old. If they're not too 
old, you can swap them and see what happens.

 DM> If I choose Ignore, I get "Cannot open group file '%s'. Do you
 DM> want Program Manager to try an load this in future? ". This
 DM> occurs ad nauseam.

  This is what progman.ini looks like, in case that's corrupt too.

Window=32 48 608 384 1
display.drv=wgadgx8.drv
Order=4 3 9 7 11 10 12 5 8 6 2 1 13
AutoArrange=1
SaveSettings=0

[Groups]
Group1=C:\WINDOWS\MAIN.GRP
Group2=C:\WINDOWS\ACCESSOR.GRP
Group3=C:\WINDOWS\STARTUP.GRP
Group4=C:\WINDOWS\APPLICAT.GRP
Group5=C:\WINDOWS\NETWORK.GRP
Group6=C:\WINDOWS\SETUP.GRP
Group7=C:\WINDOWS\PDQCM201.GRP
Group8=C:\WINDOWS\BCW402.GRP
Group9=C:\WINDOWS\ACADLT.GRP
Group10=C:\WINDOWS\DELPHI.GRP
Group11=C:\WINDOWS\BP7.GRP
Group12=C:\WINDOWS\ADOBEACR.GRP

  Those grp files should be in the directory.
  My guess is that progman.exe is corrupt. Replace it.

Regards,
Bob
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