Help!!

jonesinijonesini
edited April 2004 in Hardware
heres the thing i got some sort of virus and then got rid of it. but it left me with a load of damaged software for my hardware and i can use the reload cd. so if anyone knows how to restore a windows xp home to factory settings without using the reload cd it would be a great help

thanks

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  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    umm restore point is your friend ! restore the pc with the windows restore point and it should help BTW who is that chick in the AV?
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    see
  • jonesinijonesini
    edited April 2004
    she Keira Knightley buff i know. and the restore point dont go back far enough i have tried it. i need another way
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    errrrmmmm Let me do some more reading! I hate to say ur screwed
  • verselloversello New
    edited April 2004
    Just to add, using the 'restore' feature after a virus attack generally isn't reccomended. Virses could be backed up in those situations.

    Anyways, restoring XP to a 'default' state may prove troublesome. In Windows 2000 you could easily just swap the registry with the default-state backup reg and your PC would be good as new, but in XP I've always had troubles... and *especially* in XP Home *shudders*.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited April 2004
    depending on what got damaged re-install the drivers for your hardware. Then pop the XP cd in and do a re-pair install. If however you have a laptop or some other 'out of the box' system that didn't come with an actual XP cd and instead just has those lets return your system to day 1 disks that won't work. You'll need to get your hands on an XP cd for your version.


    On a personal note. I really hate the fact now that you buy a system from dell/hp/etc.. and they say it comes with XP...What they really mean is it comes with a bundled version of XP that doesn't actually work on it's own.
  • verselloversello New
    edited April 2004
    kryyst wrote:
    depending on what got damaged re-install the drivers for your hardware. Then pop the XP cd in and do a re-pair install. If however you have a laptop or some other 'out of the box' system that didn't come with an actual XP cd and instead just has those lets return your system to day 1 disks that won't work. You'll need to get your hands on an XP cd for your version.


    On a personal note. I really hate the fact now that you buy a system from dell/hp/etc.. and they say it comes with XP...What they really mean is it comes with a bundled version of XP that doesn't actually work on it's own.

    I've installed Dell's bundled XP on another computer.
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