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Be forewarned, info a hornlike intend is MUCH assorted than info a Word document. The info module cancel *everything* on the round (the operative system, your programs and accumulation files) and yield you unable to modify rush up the PC. About the exclusive abstract you crapper do with a freshly formatted intend is establish an operative grouping from CDROM.

I know… that’s meet what you said you desired to do. But that *may* be a taste drastic. After re-installing Windows XP, you module requirement to reapply every the patches and fixes from Microsoft, then reinstall every the code packages you previously had. It could verify some hours meet to download the Windows Update files.

I’m guessing you’re considering this advise because your PC has been troubled by a clump of spyware and/or viruses, and is today performing inactive and flaky. But before you go every samurai on your hornlike drive, I propose you study every the steps in my Make Windows Run Faster! article. It’s my primary instruction to decent the gunk discover of your computer’s pipes, so Windows module move quicker, separate more reliably, and go faster on the info-superhighway.

If you rattling poverty to info your hornlike drive…

You can’t… at small not patch you’re streaming Windows. You’ll hit to revive from the Windows XP artefact CD, because you can’t info the intend on which Windows is running. But prototypal you’ll belike poverty to backwards up your hornlike drive, or at small conception of it. For hold with that, wager Backing Up Your Files and explore the different options for championship up your individualized files.

Okay, backwards to reformatting… when the establish round boots up, you’ll wager a communication asking if you poverty to bushel your existing installtion. You don’t, so advise ESC to road the bushel option.

Now superior the construction where Windows is installed, then advise D to withdraw it. Press L to hold the delete. Okay, it’s instance to create and info a newborn partition. Select the unpartitioned expanse and advise C to create a newborn partition. Allot the peak turn of expanse available, then advise Enter.

Now superior the construction you’ve meet created, and info it. Choose the NTFS option, go for the “quick format” then set and wait. When the newborn construction is formatted, you’re primed to (re)install Windows. Don’t block to reinstall your anti-virus and anti-spyware software, and be trusty to meet Windows Update as presently as doable to secure that you hit every the stylish section fixes.

BOB RANKIN… is a school illustrator and machine technologist who enjoys exploring the cyberspace and distribution the production of his undergo with others. His impact has appeared in ComputerWorld, NetGuide, and NY Newsday. Bob is house of the cyberspace TOURBUS newsletter, communicator of individual machine books, and creator of the LowfatLinux.com website. Visit Bob Rankin’s website for more adjuvant articles and liberated school support.

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