C
Sat Aug 02 22:08:29 CDT 2003
Yes, with a few redundant caviats.
The mfr supplied a configured CD or CD set that contains an image of the
hard drive as it left the mfr.
You made a backup of the HD with Ghost or a similar utility before you added
or changed anything.
You have a boot floppy, or CD from the mfr that is bootable, or you made an
"EBD" floppy.
You have a bootable floppy or CD containing the utilities to reformat and
partition the HD.
You have installable copies of all the added software and any updated
drivers and patches.
You have something that documented the BIOS settings.
You have copies of all important files that you generated on CD or other
external storage media.
Warning--some drivers and applications may not install if they were
originally intended for use with an earlier version of windows.
This occasionally occurs when you (for example) updated from win95 to win98
or later, and the apps or drivers were originally installed under win95.
Backup the system with ghost or a similar utility before you start, and also
make sure that you have a bootable floppy or floppys containing a compatable
version of DOS and the necessary software to restore the system from the
backup CDs.
Depending upon your problems, there may be simpler ways to get where you
need to be.
For instance you can use safe mode, or other selections in the boot menu to
run windows without a lot of the addins.
MSCONFIG.exe can be used as well to inhibit loading/execution of many
entries in the .ini files.
"Sam" <armed000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:033901c35959$428e9db0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> is there a way to reset your computer to its factory
> settings or clear it of all programs and start over?
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