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Reformatting: Also try CleanUp! Another free downloadable program to remove: Internet cookies and Internet pages you have visited. Get it from http://cleanup.org/ removes:
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Internet Cookies Q. Do you really need to reformat your hard drive?
A. Maybe not, there are a few options, first try scanning your computer for bugs and spy ware. Ad-Aware SE Personal is a free spy ware removal tool downloadable from www.lavasoft.com. I also recommend EasyClaeaner from Toni Arts, free download from www.toniarts.com. EasyCleaner
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Next, you'll want a boot disk. To make a boot disk for Windows ME fallow these steps: COMPLETELY GONE! RMEMBER - everthing past this point will erase everything on your C: drive! Backup anything important before doing this! Of course, do this at your own risk. 1.Click on "Start"
2."Settings"
3."Control Panel"
4.Double click on "Add/Remove Programs"
5.You will see tabs "Install/Uninstall," "Windows Setup" and "Startup Disk" click on "Startup Disk"
6.Insert one formatted 3 ½ floppy
7.Then click on the "Create Disk"
8.You will be prompted to insert your Windows ME CD it probably came with your new computer system.
9.Then it will make a boot disk.
First you have to back up all the important data on your computer, to do this you have to ether, have a 3 1/2 floppy drive or a CD ROM drive with a burner installed. I personal like to burn to a CD because it can hold more than a 3 1/2 floppy. You have to back up anything that you cant live without this includes: pictures, songs that you paid for via the Internet, tax files, or any other files that you can't do with out. Don't backup games that you have on a CD already, because you can reinstall them again. Maybe do it twice because after you're done formatting the files
Next,
1.Shut your computer down place your boot disk into the computer's A: drive (the 3½ drive) and turn the machine on. It will boot to an A: prompt screen.
2.If you're 100% sure all your files are safely backed up, type the line below at the A: prompt:
format C:
That's the word "format", a space, "C:", a space, and "/s" That tells the computer to format the C: drive as a bootable drive.
3.You will be asked to confirm, do so.
4.Fallow the on screen instructions.
5.And you're all set.
Reformat & Reinstalling Windows Millennium
Next.
*You'll have to install ever thing again: including
*Internet Connection
*Anti Virus
*Spy Ware Removal
*Text Editor
*CD Burner
*Web Explore
*Any Games You Have On CD
*Backed Up Files
3.You will be asked to confirm, do so.
4.Fallow the on screen instructions.
5.And you're all set.
is there any thing eles that should me added to this this is for a school class!
This post has been edited by davisbaumung: 07 April 2005 - 10:26 PM
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Posted 07 April 2005 - 10:00 PM
