Re: Windows XP Pro receiving updates for Windows NT

Hi Anonymous,

Thanks for the tips. I have all of my documents, pictures and other files
backed up on an external hard drive, along with the zipped versions of
programs that I downloaded. I also have my Windows XP disk and the disks
that came with other hardware.

My computer was made for me and the person who made it is no long available
to answer questions about it. I was going to try to repair Windows first and
I have half of it started. I'm procrastinating because I still have to back
up my drivers but I don't know where to look for them. I'm sure my printer,
keyboard, mouse, etc, have their drivers on their disks but I don't know
about anything else, ie, mobo, etc. And I don't want to even get into the
subject of BIOS. The word itself sends a shiver down my spine.

So the long and short of it is that I'm looking to fix things that might be
causing my computer to have problems instead of doing a more invasive
procedure. I know, I'm a chicken.
--
Denise
~ It's difficult to know where you're going if you don't know where you came
from.



"ANONYMOUS" wrote:



Denise wrote:

In another post at the Microsoft Forums, I started a post about problems
that I'm having with .NETFramework and ASP.NET. My computer freezes when I
receive the error messages and I have to use the reset button on my tower to
reboot.



You should imeediately backup your own data (the ones you have created
yourself like letters, emails, photos etc). I thought I better mention
this first just in case Ken Blake - Most Valuable Professional - is
reading this and telling me off!! for not warning you!!.

Now since you have had problems with your system, do you know roughly
how long yu have been runningthe system?

You have two options to recover from problems:

1) Try repair install of OS and doing a Windows update to bring your
system to current state but without the problems;
2) To a clean install of the OS - this wipes the disk clean so you lose
everything!!!

In both cases you will need the original CD of XP to bootup from. I
personally prefer to do the Clean Install but I have ways of doing it
quickly from images I keep.

You will also need the original Application CDs - such as Office,
Antivirus, Roxio, etc etc, to reinstall all of them. For repair install
you may not need the application CDs but the application themselves may
have been corrupted.

In clean install, you will notice marked improvement in bootup/shutdown
time etc including faster access to data and applications.

hth

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