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[jihchiang]

My OS is vista home premium , a Dell laptop Inspiron 1420, 32 bit , 2GB Ram,
120GB Hard Drive, Dual Layer 8X DVD Burner. I'd like to know if I can " turn
the clock back ", putting my laptop back to the day I bought it. I have
already downloaded whatever files I want to keep on some cds. If it's
possible to do, I need someone to show me step by step procedures. Yes, I
have the disks that came with the laptop. My laptop is only 4 months old,
but it's running like an old man , and I suspect that's because whoever set
it up had put a lot of "junks" in before I bought it. Trouble is , I can't
tell which is which, so I don't dare to uninstall them. Anyone with the
patience to lead me along ?

 

[jihchiang]

supplimentery infos : I've done disk clean, defrag, disk compressed a lot of
times. They are not helping.

 

[jihchiang]

additional infos : I had tried disk clean, defrag, disk compressed quite a
few times. They didn't help at all.

 

[Charlie42]

How do I restore my Inspiron 1420 (Vista Home Premium) back to the
original factory condition?

Sadly, a restore to factory default will also restore crapware bundled by
the OEM. You need to do a clean install of Vista (with an installation disk)
to avoid that. The second best thing to do, is uninstalling OEM software
after the reinstall.

Charlie42

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
After restoring to out of the box condition (See Bob's reply) visit this
page
Introducing the Dell De-Crapifier: http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/04/38

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

 

[Michael Jennings]

Sadly, a restore to factory default will also restore crapware bundled by the
OEM. You need to do a clean install of Vista (with an installation disk) to
avoid that. The second best thing to do, is uninstalling OEM software after
the reinstall.

Charlie42

A quickie approach to the second best thing to do:
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/apps

 

[jihchiang]

Bob, I went to the site and copy down the whole page of instructions. I got
stuck on step 10 which is :
Type the following lines, press Enter after each line : -
Path=D:/WINDOWS;D:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32
D:
CD TOOLS
PCRESTORE
I got stuck in CD TOOLS. windows said " The system cannot find the path
specified "
Then just for the hell of it, I typed in the last line which was PCRESTORE
( note, no spacing between the two words ). The windows said " `PC` is not
recognized as an internal or external command , operable program or batch
file.
I followed the step-by-step to the letter. Now what ?

 

[Bob]

Contact Dell.
--
*Report back, please*

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm
http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm

 

[jihchiang]

Thank you , Don

Hi,
After restoring to out of the box condition (See Bob's reply) visit this
page
Introducing the Dell De-Crapifier: http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/04/38

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

My OS is vista home premium , a Dell laptop Inspiron 1420, 32 bit , 2GB Ram,
120GB Hard Drive, Dual Layer 8X DVD Burner. I'd like to know if I can " turn
the clock back ", putting my laptop back to the day I bought it. I have
already downloaded whatever files I want to keep on some cds. If it's
possible to do, I need someone to show me step by step procedures. Yes, I
have the disks that came with the laptop. My laptop is only 4 months old,
but it's running like an old man , and I suspect that's because whoever set
it up had put a lot of "junks" in before I bought it. Trouble is , I
can't
tell which is which, so I don't dare to uninstall them. Anyone with the
patience to lead me along ?