Re-installing my XP Pro Operating System...

I'm planning to reinstall my XP operating system (there just comes a time, you know?) and I'm worried about losing everything I've gotten done in Lightroom. I can easily copy all the image files to a safe location, of course, but how can I make sure that the changes to the image files I've made through Lightroom as well as the organizing I've done in Lightroom will follow them? Is there someone who can guide me through the process or link me to a walk-through of what to do to prep my Lightroom information/databases for the reinstallation process so that everything will come out the other side neat and clean after I reinstall the software?
Thanks.

FlyBoeingJets wrote:
Thank you. I probably should have been more specific in my original post, but does the information you provided apply to Lightroom 2.0?
The according LR2 information can be found here.
FlyBoeingJets wrote:
Also, how do I check to see if the sidecar files have been created?
Thanks again.
You don't need to create the sidecar files. Your catalog (which you have to back up) contains everything an XMP sidecar could possibly contain. But if you want to do so, select all images in your catalog, press Ctrl-S and wait for (quite) a while, until the asynchronous process has completed.
A couple of more things you might consider backing up and restoring to the newly installed system:
PlugIns, if you have any
ACR defaults, if you have modified your camera profile default and/or your ACR cache size:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Adobe\CameraRaw\Defaults
Custom Camera and/or Lens Profiles you might have created:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles
C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Adobe\CameraRaw\LensProfiles
These are the locations of the relevant files for LR2 and LR3 in WinXP mentions by F. McLion:
Preferences and Presets:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom
Catalog:
See "Location" in General Tab of Catalog Settings
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland

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