Hello Is there a way to delete every thing on my old pc to restore it back to nothing except windows? XP is on the pc, but i dont have the disk. Can this be done, if yes . . .how? thaaaanks.
I'd would contact the vendor(company) that made your pc and request either a windows install disk or a restore disk. If you bought and installed windows yourself and lost the cd then i'd say your out of luck.
well you could reinstall windows. or you could do a system restore all the way back to the time that the PC was bought. doing a system resotre will mean that your comp will be exactly the way it was when you first bought as far as installed programs are concerned but youll get to keep all of your files
Those two facts don't quite live well together Sypher! It could be as simple as uninstalling everything you can find in Add/Remove programs...then use a good registry cleaner like CCleaner to rid the system of leftover files, and registry entries.
thanks guys for your help, the pc is pretty old though i had new mother board, ram and hard drive put in it as it totally crashed about a year ago,(lost everything on it) when that was done the shop put xp on it without a disk. I have brought a new pc which came with 2 disks called acer microsoft wondows xp media center edition 2005 RCD aspire e500 dvd 1&2, but also says: this software included on this recovery dvd was per installed on your hard drive at the factory and may only be used on your acer computer system. Are these disks able to be installed on the old pc? aka: will this work? Thanks Guys for your help
This sounds most likely (im 99% sure) that this is a restore disc NOT a genuine windows install disc. so no this disc can only be used on the system that it came with.
the best thing I know u can do is go to www.download.com and type in abexo free registry cleaner 1.0 and download it.... go to control panel>add or remove programs and remove everything then run the registry cleaner twice (just to be sure) and then do the system restore thing
I personally use CCleaner I believe its also available at download.com I know its also available at ccleaner.com and filehippo.com Its never deleted a registry key my system needed only the old junk ones. Its a great program
