how to reformat my computer.. . it's performance is getting slow?

Question

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Answer 1

I would not reformat. Try defragging and disk cleanup and registry cleaner before you resort to anything that drastic. Also try antivirus software and spyware cleaners.

All of these can slow a good computer down.

You wipe out everything on your hard drive when you reformat. I have done it to eliminate viruses, but that's an extreme solution, and I spent a week backing up files before I reformatted. And there is always the risk that you will back up an infected file.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Stupid People shouldn't breed! I got a winme startup floppy and you can get one of those made at Best Buy. Put the floppy into its drive slot and restart the computer. it goes about saying its trying to restart your computer....just ignore. It'll get to a place where it'll have 1. 2. 3. 4. settings to pick. Pick the 2nd for cdrom support. click enter. Then it goes about its business saying it'll take several minutes to restart your computer, ignore this also. then it hits A: and you shall type in A:format c: it'll ask you if you want to proceed that you'll lose everything on the harddrive. With a Y or N choose Y and off to the races you are.When its done, it'll want you to click enter again....do it. then it returns to A: Take out the floppy, put the winxp cd into its drive and restart the computer. I have winxp and have never been able to format with it! I like having a Fat32 setup.

Answer 4

Before reformanting your computer,there are some softwares you can download to speed up your computer.
First,You should Fix Corruption and Errors within your registry.The registry is a main part of your computer's Operating System. With time, as you use Windows and install and uninstall programs, your registry will get congested and full of errors. So your computer could slow down. So, if you can clean it up this problem can be solved.Sometimes you can speed computer up by 300%. To clean up registry,You can download a software called regsitry cleaner---Clean registry,remnant,corrupt files and temp files,history,cookies,etc.. This site:
http://speed-up-pc.info/index.php?t=speedpc
lists top 5 registry cleaner,you can download and scan for free.
Second,Get rid of spyware/adware in your computer.spyware/adware hamper your computer's performance.It use system resources and slow your computer down.

So, to speed up your slow computer, use a registry cleaner software and clean your registry files first. It will make all the difference, and provide you with the immediate fix you need for your slow computer.Then,download a good anti-spyware to get rid of spyware/adware in your computer.

Answer 5

If you're runnign XP... my experience is that XP really suffers as it's disk gets fragmented. Our home 'surfing' PC slowed to the point where it was virtually unusable... and I was thinking of wiping it out and starting again.

But, emptying the recycle bins and deleting the surfing history of everyone one the PC and running a defragment restored it's performance to when it was new.

Open Windows Explorer (start->programs->accessories->windows explorer or start->all programs->accessories->windows explorer

Right click the disk drive and select 'properties'

Select the 'Tools' tab

Click 'defragment'

Select Analyse button and when it finishes choose 'defragment' button.

Wait a few hours

Hopefully see much improved PC performance.

Answer 6

if you are asking this then you should not do it yourself. there is a risk of loosing everything on the hard disk.

It might be best to call a friend over for a beer or somthing & have him oversee while you do it.

the process is simple if there is nothing useful on the computer of if you are sure you have a backup of everything. insert the winXP CD & restart with the boot from CD option.

Answer 7

Simple restore ur important data in to cd-rw/pen drive or on other partition and boot it from a bootable cd of ur OS and formated the disk and install again.

Answer 8

basically all you need is a windows XP CD . It lets your format computer and then install new XP . You can even make partitions.

Get an XP CD.

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Answer 9

start with a fragmentation....that will compress your current files and free up space on your hard drive which could help it run faster.......but defragging is not reformatting, if you defrag and it doesn't help e-mail me @ [e-mail] or IM me on messenger

Answer 10

2 WAYS - IF YOU HAVE A 31/2" FLOPPY DRIVE YOU CAN DO A LOW-LEVEL FORMAT - OR SIMPLY RUN FDISK, AND FORMAT...

IF YOURE JUST GONNA RE-INSTALL WINDOWS, JUST PUT THE DISC IN, AND REBOOT THE COMPUTER AND SET YOUR BIOS (HIT DEL @ STARTUP) TO BOOT OF CD...