re: Re-installed XP lost programs. Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 10:15 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by James t. Durkin (108 messages posted) Thanks for the reply, will try, unfotunately I had no manual, wish I had one. On Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 9:16 am, MartinM wrote: > >Worth hitting F11 early in the boot sequence. > >If Dell's restore partition (it will have had one) is still there (it might be) you >will be prompted to do a "factory reset" which will install all the correct drivers. > >If only you'd read the manual before reinstalling Windows . . . but hindsight is >a wonderful thing :-) > Written in response to: re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (MartinM: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 9:16 am) Responses to this message: re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (MartinM: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 10:32 am) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (MartinM: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 10:36 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Re-installed XP lost programs. (James t. Durkin: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 9:42 pm) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (Adam Bradley: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 10:18 pm) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (James t. Durkin: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 10:28 pm) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (Adam Bradley: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 11:14 pm) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (MartinM: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 9:16 am) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 10:00 am) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (MartinM: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 10:09 am) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 11:14 am) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (James t. Durkin: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 10:15 am) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (MartinM: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 10:32 am) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (MartinM: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 10:36 am) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (James t. Durkin: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 11:25 am) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (James t. Durkin: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 11:48 am) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (MartinM: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 12:54 pm) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sun, Nov 1, 2009, 2:33 pm) re: Re-installed XP lost programs. (Sebastian: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 8:38 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum