I bought a 2nd hand PC today from a car boot sale. The guy I got it from told me it was empy and ready to use, however its full to the max with bloody games, how the hell do I completly reboot it? To like new. It has a Windows XP home Edition on it, I think it can be done somehow......Help, it a pressie for the girlfriend and she comes back from her holiday tonight at 9.30pm!
2007-07-29 02:49:17 · 9 answers · asked by PK 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
How does the system format work?
2007-07-29 02:56:00 · update #1
Hi,
I am guessing that you don't have a copy of XP install disk, if you did it's easy, what you have to do is go to add remove programs and remove all the stuff you don't want (games etc) then do a disk Cleanup and then Defrag your Hard Drive to get your free space back again. Hope this helps.
2007-07-29 02:54:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What i tell you here only works if you have an XP disk.
Restart PC with the disk in the disk tray.
Keep Taping an F key (For me its F12) which gives me a menu before XP starts.
I chose "Boot from IDE CD-rom drive"
Then just follow all the intructions it says.
If you dont have an XP disk, then you will have to delete everything manually. Go to control panel, add or remove programs, and go through all the programs slowly and delete all the ones you dont want.
Then after everything is deleted a restart will help, and then run a defragment, anti-virus scan, clean up disk, and scan disk to get rid of all the temperary and uneeded files.
Then give it another reboot and it should be ok.
2007-07-29 03:01:57 · answer #2 · answered by ChrisW 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Click Start, control panel, performance and maintenance, in the column on the left you will see system restore. Click that and select the date. Use the left arrow to go back to the first day that it will allow you to select, dates that are in bold are the days you can select. Click the very first date that you can and follow instructions. If that doesn't do the trick to delete games, etc. then you will have to click start, control panel, add/remove programs, then delete all games and unwanted programs from the list. After you do all that you will have to create a restore point. Click start, control panel, system restore, create a restore point then follow the directions. Doing that will make sure that if you have to do a system restore again then you will go to the point after you deleted all the junk.
2007-07-29 02:58:20 · answer #3 · answered by Scotti Michele 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could go to control panel- add remove-and just uninstallall that you don't need. Also go to windows clean up and uncheck any components you will not be using. Without the original windows cd you can't do much more.
2007-07-29 02:55:38 · answer #4 · answered by Spiny Norman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
JUST INSTALL THE COMPUTER AS ADVICED ON MY WEBSITE BELOW AND YOU"LL BE AMAZED WITH MAXIMUM RESULTS
http://computersguide.blogspot.com/2007/01/install-computers.html
2007-07-29 03:22:02 · answer #5 · answered by dabedatiludlisi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This site will give you step by step instructions on how to restore your system to original status. Good Luck and Have fun!!!
2007-07-29 02:56:19 · answer #6 · answered by 'Old & Cudley' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Control panel add/remove programmes,Click on that and start removing what you don't want.
2007-07-29 02:55:07 · answer #7 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just go to add remove and take off what you don't want.
2007-08-01 14:08:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if u know about the system restore, you can choose to restore from the earliest date, or you can reformat ur pc..
2007-07-29 02:52:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋