How do I go about making it "fresh and new" for him. I was just going to erase all of my old files and programs but my husband thinks this will be too time consuming and suggested I just re-install XP on it. Any ideas?
2006-12-10 02:32:40 · 12 answers · asked by JenEstes 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I agree with your husband. Reinstalling XP is the easiest thing to do and the computer will be totally clean and run better for your nephew that way.
2006-12-10 02:35:57 · answer #1 · answered by I know, I know!!!! 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If you are selling your computer, thoroughly clean your hard drive. Deleting files and reformatting is not enough. Reformatting does not overwrite every sector, and private information can remain retrievable. Use a secure delete or disk wiping utility to overwrite every sector on all hard drives. Be sure to use a utility that supports the U.S. DoD standard of seven passes or wipes. While this method is good enough for most people, be aware that the only absolute way of destroying all traces of everything your hard drives is to have these disks degaussed (demagnetized) and physically destroyed.
Suggested: BCWipe, Evidence Eliminator, or SDelete.
After you clean your hard drive re-install windows from your manufactuer disk.
2006-12-10 02:41:15 · answer #2 · answered by rlh242424 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fdisk and format it but make sure you have all the disks that came with it to re-install any needed drivers, like for sound and video etc. Installing XP again will still leave un-necessary files.
this tells how to format XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348
or here to do a clean install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
To just take off programs click on my computor/add remove programs
2006-12-10 02:38:56 · answer #3 · answered by Dixie R 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just format the hard-disk and reinstall "Windows". This way you won't waste lots of time (it takes 30 minutes to me to format an 80GB drive and install "Windows XP") and the computer will be as new.
2006-12-10 02:41:01 · answer #4 · answered by Bogdan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you want everything undone, buy WipeDrive ($20)
Follow instructions to wipe the harddrive(s), then reinstall XP. You might want to set the basic stuff up, depending on how computer-literate your nephew is.
2006-12-10 02:36:35 · answer #5 · answered by D2oG 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yah just install xp again because then the computer will be fresh. do u plan on giving it to him for christmas?
2006-12-10 02:50:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
that is a faster and more thorough way of doing it. just make sure to overwrite the existing partition and not create a new one (this will duplicate the win xp system files).
just so you know, this way is not pefect. some of your files (and personal information) will remain.
2006-12-10 02:41:28 · answer #7 · answered by Babumoshai 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you will possibly be able to desire to manually pass into each record and folder and delete, delete, delete and you nevertheless won't get each thing off. to be particular you probably did not go away something on it the suitable component to do is format thechronic and reinstall the working device then you definately will comprehend the laptop is sparkling.
2016-12-13 06:10:39 · answer #8 · answered by mohrmann 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah reinstall windows xp. It will start new and fast.
2006-12-10 02:38:24 · answer #9 · answered by Tayshaun 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
just restart with xp cd in and load from cd ,do it all for you take about 2hours or less ,u cant validate the copy tho ,but i got software that lets you just email me if u need it ok
2006-12-10 03:14:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋