Restoring Factory Settings

[Guest joshdonlan]

One of my laptops has become slow as heck, im looking to wipe everything off it and start over. Does anyone know the way to do this? Its a Dell.

 

Thanks

[Guest bakes]

One of my laptops has become slow as heck, im looking to wipe everything off it and start over. Does anyone know the way to do this? Its a Dell.

 

Thanks

 

by that do you mean wipe the service software off as well ie windows.vista and so on if you doing that you have to run the windows disk partition the file/hard drive then delete and re install the new windows if you dont no what you doing i wouldn't do it mate ive had to do a stack loads of re installs as someone said they new what they was doing and bodge there computers up if the computer is running slow check your security setting are they turn on you could have spyware,trojans,viruses do a system scan if you find a virus on there move it to your quartine part of the internet security dont delete as it will get worse.

 

all the best

k.baker

[blackdog]

defrag it mate and empty prefetch folder in windows

[Guest joshdonlan]

cheers will look into it  

[Guest joshdonlan]

 

by that do you mean wipe the service software off as well ie windows.vista and so on if you doing that you have to run the windows disk partition the file/hard drive then delete and re install the new windows if you dont no what you doing i wouldn't do it mate ive had to do a stack loads of re installs as someone said they new what they was doing and bodge there computers up if the computer is running slow check your security setting are they turn on you could have spyware,trojans,viruses do a system scan if you find a virus on there move it to your quartine part of the internet security dont delete as it will get worse.

 

all the best

k.baker

 

Cheers mate, no i dont want to delete windows just resote the laptop to how it was when i got it new out of the box. I have done this once before with dell on the phone, but i had to pay. It was something like hold f11 on start up and follow instructions, but im not sure.

 

Thanks for the help  

[dwh]

 

by that do you mean wipe the service software off as well ie windows.vista and so on if you doing that you have to run the windows disk partition the file/hard drive then delete and re install the new windows if you dont no what you doing i wouldn't do it mate ive had to do a stack loads of re installs as someone said they new what they was doing and bodge there computers up if the computer is running slow check your security setting are they turn on you could have spyware,trojans,viruses do a system scan if you find a virus on there move it to your quartine part of the internet security dont delete as it will get worse.

 

all the best

k.baker

 

bakes is 100% right my laptop scewed up by viruses and dead slow tried to mess on myself and made a right balls of it had to get my mate to reformat god as new now

[Guest bakes]

 

Cheers mate, no i dont want to delete windows just resote the laptop to how it was when i got it new out of the box. I have done this once before with dell on the phone, but i had to pay. It was something like hold f11 on start up and follow instructions, but im not sure.

 

Thanks for the help  

 

go to disk defrag let that run through that will get rid of most the stuff that is clogging your computer up or go to add /remove in control panel get rid of the items you dont use it could be down to not having enpugh memory usualy when that gets full the computer will slow right down i wouldnt do a system restore though mate as if you got a virus on it will only make it worse run a security scan see what come up on that could be due to loads of spyware,add aware that slowing it down.

 

[greenlands]

Make sure you back up any files and info either onto a pen or disc,scan same for problems.The instructions are in the link.If you are going to reset print instructions out first then you can refer to them later.

Lindsay.

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/document?c=us&l=en&s=gen&docid=3E48AE3870775D64E040A68F5B2877D4&journalid=5718E51A94171861E040AE0AB5E15BE1&Query=&SystemID=&ServiceTag=&contenttype=&os=&component=&lang=&doclang=en&toggle=&dl#Issue3

[Guest joshdonlan]

cheers Lindsay mate

 

Theres nothing important on it so will give it a go  

[Guest bigda]

if you have windows,  just  do a    systeem  restore  back to the days it was runing  ok    

[Guest joshdonlan]

sorted, used Lindsays link  

[greenlands]

sorted, used Lindsays link  

 

Pleased I can manage to get something right.

Lindsay

[Guest mick bowler]

Josh most reasons for a slow computer is everything that is running in the background from downloaded programmes etc. Worth doing ctrl+alt+delete and look at your task manager and see what processes are currently running. Also a good reputable registry cleaner will make it work better, but beware some will delete critical data for installed programmes, so when they ask wether to delete or not google them to see if they are needed.