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Format
Monday, September 6, 2004 at 2:16 pm
Posted by Jim Lowery
(99 messages posted)
Hey everyone....... I am going to try and reformat
my moms computer. It has become so slow that
just clicking on a Icon takes forever. Its been a
long time and is there any great site that I can get
detail instrutions so I can get this done right.
I know I need a startup disk and will make one on
my computer. Should I just do format C: or format
c: \s . Evertime I used that save system stuff it never
work for me and I had to format the hd with the format command. I really would like
to do this right the
frist time. Thanks for your time .........JL
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re: Format
Monday, September 6, 2004 at 3:31 pm
Posted by JmC
(14166 messages posted)
Excellent printable instructions: PC-911 Fresh Install
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re: Format
Monday, September 6, 2004 at 3:40 pm
Posted by Kevin Andries
(320 messages posted)
Thanks JmC, I was about to send the same link to him. These instructions make it
easy to correctly format a hard drive. Good Day.
On Monday, September 6, 2004 at 3:31 pm, JmC wrote:
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>color='orange'>PC-911 Fresh Install
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re: Format
Monday, September 6, 2004 at 3:57 pm
Posted by MrCharlie
(4474 messages posted)
Spend $4.00 and have your 10 year old sister do it.
EZ-RELOAD
On Monday, September 6, 2004 at 2:16 pm, Jim Lowery wrote:
>Hey everyone....... I am going to try and reformat
>my moms computer. It has become so slow that
>just clicking on a Icon takes forever. Its been a
>long time and is there any great site that I can get
>detail instrutions so I can get this done right.
>I know I need a startup disk and will make one on
>my computer. Should I just do format C: or format
>c: \s . Evertime I used that save system stuff it never
>work for me and I had to format the hd with the format command. I really would like
>to do this right the
>frist time. Thanks for your time .........JL
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re: Format
Tuesday, September 7, 2004 at 4:54 am
Posted by Cam
(4178 messages posted)
EMERGENCY BOOT DISK FREEWARE
Before you format, try using Delindex.bat from a '98 bootdiskette to clean out all
of the junk files. If your mom needs a Free anti-virus use AVG Grisoft Free Edition
and also use Zone Alarms Free Firewall. Turn off find-fast indexing, and use AdAware,
SpyBot S&D and SpywareBlaster to get all of the Trojans off the system.
Use Eraser to clean up all of the FREE space. Run A:\>scandisk /all /surface , then
run:
A:\>scanreg /fix /opt
And use RegCleaner 4.3 to search for all of the redundant registry files. (NOTE Don't
remove any double files and 99% ARE needed by the system to run at all !!!)
Then make sure that her computer is fully updated and has enough RAM.
You might not have to reformat at all.
I just hate reformatting!
Mac
WINDOWS SUPPORT RAM
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