i want to do a clean sweep on pc?

4 thoughts on “i want to do a clean sweep on pc?”

1. Hong Kong Phooey says:

   May 7, 2011 at 11:57 am

   Superdork is right you need to format the hard drive and do a fresh install, system recovery is crap and doesn’t work that well. Check and see what discs came with your P.C you might have a recovery disc which will restore your P.C to how it was when you bought it. Formatting removes everything on your P.C so back up anything you want onto removable drives first.

2. Blood_stained_banner says:

   May 7, 2011 at 11:57 am

   By clean sweep I think you mean to restore it to factory defaults or do you just want to sweep it for spyware, virus, and other malware, and remove old software that you have no use for?

   Edit your question for us please?

3. almighty_malachi says:

   May 7, 2011 at 11:57 am

   That’s not a question. That’s a statement.

4. superdork says:

   May 7, 2011 at 11:57 am

   System recoveries is a joke. It doesn’t really fix the problem. It just restores your settings. It doesn’t get rid of any new programs that you installed. It also keeps the current version (SP3 instead of converting it back to SP1 or SP2).

   The only way to really get your PC back to it’s original factory settings is to format the entire hard drive and then reinstall the programs that came with the disks. It’s a pain, but sometimes it’s the only solution.

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