Ninehigh
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| posted on 12/9/12 at 10:12 PM |
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Cleaning windows
This laptop has been bugging me recently, not displaying pictures, refusing to run things.. I'm guessing all sorts of stuff needs updating.. So
I'd like to start from the start.
So how do I "refresh" my install of Vista (no I'm not changing) from the other partition thing I have?
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blakep82
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| posted on 12/9/12 at 10:53 PM |
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restart, press the button it tells you to press to interrupt startup (esc, F8 or F11 are common) you don't really get very long to do this
though.
follow repair and recovery instructions, will be fairly specific to your laptops manufacturer really, leave it a while, might take an hour or so
tbh, i suspect your laptops biggest problem is vista, but its your call 
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James
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| posted on 13/9/12 at 03:34 PM |
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Am sure you know this but just in case...
it will wipe your current partition and unless you backup to another location you will lose everything.
So remember your photos, documents, favourites/bookmarks, etc. etc.
HTH,
James
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 13/9/12 at 05:36 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by James
Am sure you know this but just in case...
it will wipe your current partition and unless you backup to another location you will lose everything.
So remember your photos, documents, favourites/bookmarks, etc. etc.
HTH,
James
Istr a recovery option on my old XP disc, I'm hoping there's a similar thing with this partition. But yeah I'll be backing it all up
anyway
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Jasper
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| posted on 28/9/12 at 09:24 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by James
Am sure you know this but just in case...
it will wipe your current partition and unless you backup to another location you will lose everything.
So remember your photos, documents, favourites/bookmarks, etc. etc.
HTH,
James
Hate to disagree James, but when you do a repair/install like this it copies all your old files into a 'Windows.old' file so you still
have them there afterwards. Still I would never trust this so it's always better to do a back up to an external HDD.
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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