Fiddling is mostly a waste of time
Back up anything important (including your favourites and stuff like that) - you do this anyway don't you?
Wipe the drive
Reinstall OS and apps.
Sounds like a lot of work, but it comes out quicker in the end and is guaranteed to work.
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Thu 6 Jun 2002, 11:19,
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Wipe the drive
Reinstall OS and apps.
Sounds like a lot of work, but it comes out quicker in the end and is guaranteed to work.
Well,
Most i've ever really done is stick ram in, I don't trust myself when it comes to formatting and the like, i'm gonna be such a great assistant IT support bloke come work experiance.
Anyhow, as long as everythings backed up I may as well try a little fiddling...
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Thu 6 Jun 2002, 11:23,
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Anyhow, as long as everythings backed up I may as well try a little fiddling...
whatever else you do
create a boot disk before you start fiddling...
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Thu 6 Jun 2002, 11:28,
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Okay...
Boot...
Disk...
...
I should really learn something about computers before I go off to work experiance...
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Thu 6 Jun 2002, 11:31,
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Disk...
...
I should really learn something about computers before I go off to work experiance...
really
a boot disk is a floppy disk with the bare minimum you need to access dos, your harddisk and normally your CD. Without it fixing your computer when its gone titsup is a lot of hassle. You should be able to create one from the windows control panel (somewhere in System I think). good luck.
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Thu 6 Jun 2002, 11:43,
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