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Please do not create duplicate threads about Re-installing WinXP ? Friday, March 17, 2006 at 9:10 am Posted by Kiwi (2228 messages posted) This new ramble belongs in http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1142527196, not in a new thread at all. And if you will add just a little normal punctuation and normal paragraph breaks, then check off "Preserve Spacing", your lengthy, too-dense blocks of text will become more readable. . Kiwi ** On Friday, March 17, 2006 at 8:41 am, Dalia wrote: >¿Do you have the XP Home CD and does the computer come with a Recovery program to >put it back to as bought factory condition? ------ How does that work, putting it >back like when i bought it? Does it restore the memory, and the local disk space? >Because, This computer that i'm using know. used to have 14.9 GB, now it has 5.05 >Gb.. I always try to keep it on 7 Gb or higher but lately i have been doing losts >of photo editing!. I have the recovery CD's and the installation CD for WinXP. How >can I restore the computer to it's factory setting? please can someone tell me. I'm >running WinXp home editon on a Compaq 5000 series .Again if i do that, will it restore >the memory used and hard drive space and local disk space? I'm not really technical >inside a computer! last night I went to the cotrol panel and deleted like 5 photo >editing programs so now im close to 6GB. >I deleted them because the computer was running slow.. But now it's working faster >than it used to.. But I would really like to have it back to it's factory setting! >Is it possible? >----Like I said I have the Recovery CD and the WinXP installation disk! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Re-installing WinXP ? Friday, March 17, 2006 at 9:55 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Normally you just boot to your CD, and follow the directions. If that doesn't work, the Compaq web site has instructions on how the recovery CD's work [Reply or follow-up to this message] I told Dalia to post this anew . . . Friday, March 17, 2006 at 11:44 am Posted by jcw (5124 messages posted) because the problem here was/is about a different computer and apparently a different user than the subject of the original message in that thread. See: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1142553699 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Re-installing WinXP ? Friday, March 17, 2006 at 12:04 pm Posted by Dalia (5 messages posted) I'm sorry if I have caused problems. I just want to thank Steve for his reply, Thank you . I will find help somewhere else. I open this new one because it's for a different computer. :'( [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Re-installing WinXP ? Friday, March 17, 2006 at 12:19 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) The Compaq web site should have in the Support section a search box where you put in the Make, and Model number of the Computer, and you should find detailed instructions on use of the Restore Software. Use of this type software will vary from computer to computer. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum