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Windows Running Slow?

LAST UPDATED: 08 November 2007 18:19:20 -0600

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I have read from many sources that recommend that you reinstall Windows about twice a year since it will get bogged down for any number of reasons.  Why?  Mostly because it is Windows, Sorry Bill.  But the truth hurts.

If your system starts bogging down or you notice a performance reduction, it is probably time to totally reset your system with a fresh install of Windows.  You will also have to do this if you get one of those pesky boot sector viruses or your last install of windows is sluggish from the start.

It is best to print off this procedure before starting

Using this procedure, you are assuming 100% of the risk.  If this procedure screws up your system, Don't call me as you have been warned!

Below is a good way of doing a reinstall of Windows.

1. MAKE SURE you have your Windows CD Roms and that they are in good working order.  Meaning no scratches on the CDs and that they can be read by your cd rom drive.
2. BACKUP every file you want to keep on Floppy (YUCK!), CDR or DVDROM. Don't have any? Get your media here!.
3. Make SURE you have the CD ROMS, Files or floppies to every piece of software you had installed.  If you don't have them GET THEM!
4. Have a Windows 98 boot disk, not and ERD for Win2k or XP.  Don't have one get it here on downloads page.
5. After you have all of your CDs, files backed up, and a boot disk, you can then start the "Flattening" of the Hard Drive.  THIS WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING ON THE HARD DRIVE!
6. Put in the boot disk.  Once you get an A:> prompt then using the script on the Debug page.  This will clear EVERY Partition on a single Hard Drive.
7. After restarting, at the A:> prompt type in FDISK
8. Select "Y" for large drive size handling.
9. Select target hard drive (the same one you just Debugged, usually the C: drive or the first boot drive)
10. Select Create partition.
11. After creating the partition, then restart your system. 
12. After restarting, at the A:> prompt type in Format C: [hit Enter]
13. Type "Y" (without quotes) at the next prompt.
14. Once the formatting has completed (will take a while on larger Hard Drives), then insert your Windows CDROM in to the CDROM drive.
15. RESTART
16. At the A:> prompt type <cdrom drive letter usually E: or D:> D:SETUP.exe
17. Then just follow the prompts.  In the case of WinNT, Win2k, and WinXP select to format the drive as NTFS. This will be the more secure drive structure.
18. Once you have installed the operating system, install programs in the following order:

1. Windows Updates
2. MS Office, Works, Word processing, Financial programs
3. Spyware programs
4. Virus scanner
5. Then everything else

Make sure you turn off your virus scanner when installing programs that you want.  otherwise you will be going through a reinstall of windows again.

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