I have a compaq that had many virus and spyware problems and want to reformat or reinstall the hard drive. I installed xp upgrade over ME and am not sure how to approach the problem from here. should i try and do a re install or ust start over.` I had excellent advice to find what my computer was doing from this board
View 8 RepliesI recently got windows xp and upgraded from windows 2000. Right now there are 93 updates or so that I can download and have downloaded but can not install. I have no idea why. The newest WGA says my windows is genuine I have 3 different virus protection programs all of which say aside from cookies my computer is clean. Some minor updates work but the critical ones do not. I have tried multiple ideas to fix this and have failed. What happens is I go to the microsoft update site. Click on express or custom install and go to the place where these updates are to be installed :
Security Update for Windows XP (KB873339)
Critical Update for Windows XP (KB886185)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB885836)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB888302)
Security Update for Windows Messenger (KB887472).....
how can I clean my c drive so that I can do a complete clean install of xp pro. I do not need to save any of my files or programs. I would rather get rid of all the bugginess and start fresh.
xp pro is the current OS.
I've been having problems with the PC (Windows XP) and just want to start from scratch. What's the quickest way to reformat the drive so I can re-install Windows XP and go from there. Also, is there any software you recommend to try and protect from viruses etc. I did have Zone Alarm and AVG, but maybe that's not enough.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedHey guys, first off I'd like to say I'm not a very smart computer person (I'm not a dumb one but don't understand a lot of the more complex stuff) and I'm mainly trying to help my brother figure something out.
I used Windows Pro for awhile but started having a problem with my sound settings (mic stopped working and since I'm a Counter-Strike player I kind of needed it back for CAL :P) so we decided after trying a new sound card, etc, etc that it was the settings (well, my brother decided that after checking on it, appearently something was reveresed for some reason?), anyways we went to install Windows Home and all went well on the installing it from the CD part, but once it got into the configuring part or whatever it kept freezing at the "Install Network" part. So after trying that about 20 times we started using the Pro version to see if it would work.... same thing. So now I'm back trying to get the Home version to work (basically just going through the motions that my bro told me to do) and it keeps freezing there
I have been advised to reformat my laptop. I don't have too many files on my laptop so losing them won't really matter, however when i put the Windows XP cd in to my drive and start up the laptop it only goes so far and keeps saying to insert the cd as files in D:i386 are missing. When i tried to run it with my pc already started up it said "i386winntupg etupgrd.dll" was missing.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhat i mean is can I just start my computer from the XP install CD w/o having formatted my harddrive which currently contains server 2003 and expect XP to install over server 2003? Or can I format my harddrive if i only have one?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedMy computer got a harsh virus on it that is giving me problems so i'm left with no choice but to reformat it.
but here is my problem..
when i get to the partition part of the installation, it shows that i have 2 drives.
C: my main drive that has 70GB
D: Recovery drive that has 10 GB...
so, how should i approach this.
I just want 1 copy of windows XP running on my computer.
how to reformat my hard drive and re-install the operating system.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently upgraded, these are my PC specs:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7750
RAM: 2GB OGZ PC6400 800Mhz
GPU: GeForce 7950GTX 512mb
HD: Samsung 160GB SataII
DVDROM: Samsung DVD+RW
PSU: Tagan 580watt
MOBO: Gigabyte DS3R
O/S: WinXP SP2
Basically i can play games, watch movies, listen to music, burn DVD's, but the problem seems to start when i simply just browse the internet. after 10-15 minutes i get a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death).
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System Information
Time of this report: 10/12/2009, 08:13:30
Machine name: DARRENS
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
i recently upgraded for windows 98 to windows xp, and now a game i had downloaded from real arcade off the internet won't play any of the sound effects. i spoke with a tech from real games and we re-installed and re-downloaded it again and it still doesn't work. is there something with the windows xp/computer settings that I need to change or adjust?
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