clean install is the best way to clear problems and better than buying a complete new pc if the problem is not major. I do it like once every 6 months.

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yujie, the problem is that my dad also use this pc, and he has virtual pc loaded on here. Furthermore, he does access to his company with this PC.

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Originally posted by limin_li actually, I am just trying to open up some programs offline, and it does the samething. Okay, 24 hours later, Now there is a new update icon, I believe its critical update icon. I am going to install this update, and we'll go from there. As for Norton Ghost, I just brought a 120gigs eide HD. Can Ghost copy everything from my c:\ including my settings into a image and paste to this new hd of mine, and then I format my C:\, install XP Professional edition, and then I put the image back to C:\. Can this work?

Norton Ghost is NOT for Data Backup. Its to image your LIVE OS (Windows XP) with all the software and drivers installed. It basically makes a .gho file image of yr entire C:. So the next time your HDD crashes or yr OS goes corrupt, you just pop in the Ghost CD, the system boots from there and then restores yr entire OS with yr applications and drivers and settings and all. Yr data, Videos, doc and mp3's etc etc can be backed up on other HDD or DVD or whatever. But this basically makes an image of a LIVE OS, Which is incredible. Restores the entire system in like 7 minutes.

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Originally posted by yujie__ clean install is the best way to clear problems and better than buying a complete new pc if the problem is not major. I do it like once every 6 months.

You actually do a clean install every 6 months?? Thats crazy...I do it like....never!!! Thats the last option......thats is if the OS goes corrupt, and the Windows XP installer wont repair it, the Command mode restoration wont restore it, the upgrade wont help and all my .gho files deny to restore my OS, Highly impossible. Its only then that I'll do a clean install......thats a nightmare.

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Originally posted by mcb001982 format, reload, start fresh....i do about every 3 months just to stay clean

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Originally posted by Sumit_A You actually do a clean install every 6 months?? Thats crazy...I do it like....never!!! Thats the last option......thats is if the OS goes corrupt, and the Windows XP installer wont repair it, the Command mode restoration wont restore it, the upgrade wont help and all my .gho files deny to restore my OS, Highly impossible. Its only then that I'll do a clean install......thats a nightmare.

Yea, crazy indeed. Only do that as a last option.

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Are u sure u dont have the IBM Deathstar harddrive? I heard its not that reliable as the others. Or you can try to clone the HD on a same size HD as yours and see if it works or not

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Originally posted by Sumit_A You actually do a clean install every 6 months?? Thats crazy...I do it like....never!!! Thats the last option......thats is if the OS goes corrupt, and the Windows XP installer wont repair it, the Command mode restoration wont restore it, the upgrade wont help and all my .gho files deny to restore my OS, Highly impossible. Its only then that I'll do a clean install......thats a nightmare.

i seriously do this monthly. windows is such a piece of shit programming. i have it on my laptop so i have to image it monthly to keep it fresh because windows just decides to eat itself the longer its alive. excluding viruses and spy where which i don't get anyway. but it still sucks.

want to solve your problems? buy a mac.
want to really solve your problems and be real secure? run linux. i switched to linux 2 years ago for my desktop and i'd never even consider going back. so much lighter, so much more control and so much faster. go download ubuntu it will probably be best for you http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/

i've been running a gentoo file server thats my desktop with 2 monitors thats going to be upgraded to an AMD64 system soon =) i'd like to get a dual core cpu but its way too much money right now

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Every month? Just as bad

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hey guys, thanks for all your help.

The problem is kind of hard to explain. However, I already have a solution. My friend and I installed Magic Partition on this harddrive, and we installed win xp and the lagging and crashing problem is gone. So what is going to happen is that, well since I already have a 120gigs hd on the way, I am going to install win xp on that hd. So my dad and I will not fight over the formatting hd and starting from scratch all over again. My friend told me that, use Norton Ghost when I have everything is set. This way if I fucked up, I can just go back to that image file and start over again.

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Originally posted by BiG MiKE Every month? Just as bad

well i do it monthly because i'm a computer nerd and have zero patience for when things slow down.

it helps that my thinkpad literatly has an image button on it =)

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