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Originally Posted by MaxCandy
Ok just bought a registry cleaner, installed and ran
things pretty much same?
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I was serious about my previous post. If you haven't reinstalled in a long time (I usually do every 6 months to a year), you might want to consider it; you're computer will be a lot faster, assuming you don't put a bunch of useless programs back on it that load at startup.
Assuming you're running XP, I would:
(0) Backup everything
(1) DiskCheck the hard drive (ScanDisk on Win98)
(2) Defrag the hard drive
(3) Debug (this is a script run from a Win98 boot disk that will wipe your partitians...some viruses can't be destroyed by simply formating)
(4) Format from XP disk (will make you establish a partitian...choose NTSC)
(5) Reinstall Windows XP
(6) Reinstall your programs
(7) Check startup (both folder and msconfig.sys) to disable any unnecessary programs from starting up at boot
(8) Go through services to disable unnecessary services to improve performance and reduce security holes. If you need a list, hit me up and I'll send you one.