Well over time my cpu has slowed down and I have followed all of the cleaning and virus/maleware/trojen cleanup procedures and I am clean as a whistle, but I have a very slow boot up. My question is, can I just reinstall windows and not loose any files or important stuff and would this be the fix for my problem? Question 2.... Is there any thing else I should do since I have done the intense clean to help this problem?
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Jump to Postyou will lose you files unless you back them up then you will have to reinstall any program you have on your computer. have you tried to defrag your computer clean the prefetch and temp floders, internet history and registry.
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*for Q1:
you can simply Repair winxp without losing any data by:
1.boot from winxp cd
2.the first window will ask you to repair, don't choose the first (repair) choise
choose the (install) option
3.from the second screen you could safely choose (repair) choise, then follow the instruction
the …
Jump to Postisn't this a little evasive for a computer that just might need to delete some files.
so how exactly do you repair xp with the xp cd anyway. Please don't just say the recovery console, please explain the process and what does it do.Repair is a valid and often …
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