Will a Reinstall/Repair of XP affect networking settings?

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A colleague borrowed my laptop last week and kindly infected it with a virus
(pauses to send him another email of abuse). I've managed to clean the
machine of the virus and its various files, but the after-effects are
causing a degree of instability and poor performance: the machine boots up
more slowly and displays occasional odd behaviour.

My thinking is that a repair/reinstall might be a smart idea, but I have one
question regarding the networking settings. I'm no expert on networking,
and persuaded a colleague to set up the networking between the laptop,
desktop and router. Since I have no desire to become conversant with
networking, I'd like some reassurance that a repair/reinstall will not have
an effect on the existing network settings. Or am I going to have to buy my
friend another dinner to thank him for re-networking the thing?

TIA
 
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Trent SC said:
A colleague borrowed my laptop last week and kindly infected it with
a virus (pauses to send him another email of abuse). I've managed to
clean the machine of the virus and its various files, but the
after-effects are causing a degree of instability and poor
performance: the machine boots up more slowly and displays occasional
odd behaviour.
My thinking is that a repair/reinstall might be a smart idea, but I
have one question regarding the networking settings. I'm no expert
on networking, and persuaded a colleague to set up the networking
between the laptop, desktop and router. Since I have no desire to
become conversant with networking, I'd like some reassurance that a
repair/reinstall will not have an effect on the existing network
settings. Or am I going to have to buy my friend another dinner to
thank him for re-networking the thing?
TIA
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A repair install will leave the setting intact, a reinstall will not.
Repair Install
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If your machine is having a number of issues I would start fresh, so buy
another meal for your friend. You may want to see if he would be willing to
document what he does so you could follow a step-by-step. In reality, the
router setup will not change and your machine is probably already set to
recieve an IP address from the router. So you really should not need to have
your friend do anything, unless you are using a wireless network and have
encryption enabled then you will need the key assigned to your machine
again.

Good luck.
 
Trent SCwrote
A colleague borrowed my laptop last week and kindly infected it wit
a virus
(pauses to send him another email of abuse). I've managed to clea the
machine of the virus and its various files, but the after-effect are
causing a degree of instability and poor performance: the machin boots up
more slowly and displays occasional odd behaviour

My thinking is that a repair/reinstall might be a smart idea, but have one
question regarding the networking settings. I'm no expert o networking,
and persuaded a colleague to set up the networking between th laptop,
desktop and router. Since I have no desire to become conversan with
networking, I'd like some reassurance that a repair/reinstall wil not have
an effect on the existing network settings. Or am I going to hav to buy my
friend another dinner to thank him for re-networking the thing

TI
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The easiest thing to do is use your system restore and go to the poin
just before you loaned it out. That's why it's there

Incidentally, a repair install will revert your OS to what the dis
is. Meaning, if you have SP/2 installed on an SP/1 system, Window
will revert back to SP/1 and you have to start all over. Same thin
with any and all Windows updates

Now, if you installed anything after all the updates, chances are tha
will either be gone, or won't run. Repair install, is not all it'
cracked up to be

Cheer
 
Trent said:
A colleague borrowed my laptop last week and kindly infected it with a virus
(pauses to send him another email of abuse). I've managed to clean the
machine of the virus and its various files, but the after-effects are
causing a degree of instability and poor performance: the machine boots up
more slowly and displays occasional odd behaviour.
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Tell your friend NOT to install viruses in the future. As even if you
remove a virus, the damage it does may still remain.
 
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