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I’d like to reinstall Windows XP (home, SP2) on my desktop, but I’m afraid to just go at it. I’ve never done it before, and I’m a little scared that I’ll just screw it all up. Can someone help me please? Possibly a webpage with a good walkthrough, or something like that?
I’ve found a program to backup my system, and that’s about the only thing I’ve got. I don’t have the Windows XP disc that came with my computer. Is there any way I can still reinstall?
Thanks!
You definetly need the Windows XP original CD to reinstall it, so if you don’t have your original CD I think you will have to buy a new copy of XP. Installing XP is not so hard so don’t be afraid, you can go HERE he’s got a detailed tutorial on Windows XP instaltion. Hoe this helps you.
Rafael
Out of interest, why is it that you wish to reinstall it? Because unless you have a good reason to do so, I wouldn’t recommend it.
Apparently Microsoft say you should do a reformat and clean install every six months or so, and personally, I think this is unncessary. Unless there is a reason to do such a thing, I wouldn’t bother.
Well, my Desktop computer is extremely slow, and it’s not spyware or adware or anything like that. I read that reinstalling can help it go a little faster again, so I want to try it.
I guess so, but have you tried other things like making sure you have a sufficient amount of hard drive space?
Have you recently run a disk defragmentation, as this can slow computers down significantly. But as mentioned previously, you need the Windows XP disk to do it, and to obtain one would cost…that’s another reason for not reinstalling.
Can you post us a list of your system specifications, they may be contributing to the system slowdown, and a hardware upgrade may help solve it. Thanks.
I defragmented my drive a few days ago, and I haven’t seen a change. I guess it could be the HD, since it’s only 40GB, and I’ve got lots of stuff on my computer.
Specs…
-2.4 GHz P4 processor
-40 GB Harddrive
-256 DDR RAMThose are the only one’s I can think of that would be relevant, but if something else is important, I can probably post it as well.
Well, its definately not the processor speed, nor the amount of RAM.
How full is the hard drive, I read somewhere that you should keep at least a quarter of it free, otherwise you’ll experience system slowdown. Obviously, this means you should be looking to have 10GB free at any time.
I just checked (and it took me about 15 minutes!), and my harddrive still has almost 25GB’s of space. This really has me stumped…
[edit: I haven’t cleaned my broswer cache… I’ll do that, and I’ll see how it goes…]
[edit2: When I log into my account on the computer, something pops up and says something about a wudpt.exe. I have no idea what program that is.]
I have to go with David there, maybe you have too many programs running on your taskbar thats why its slowin down. or Perhaps you could try something like “no paging file”. To do this, right click on my computer > properties, on the advance tab, click settings under the Performance box, then advance tab again on the virtual memory box click change > then select “no paging file” then set and ok… just a suggestion though it works for me. (512 ram though)
Quote:quote: [edit2: When I log into my account on the computer, something pops up and says something about a wudpt.exe. I have no idea what program that is.]Is it wupdt.exe? Check the spelling of it… Nothing turned up on a google search for wudpt, but I did find a wupdt.exe, tons of entries for that, which is either adware or a trojan. Have you done adware/spyware and virus scans?
Yes, I’ve done scans and such. Nothing turned up, so I didn’t think it was a virus or anything. I’ve disabled a few things (including wudpt.exe) and I haven’t noticed much change.
I’m pretty sure it’s spelled wudpt.
I am a computer technician who is known to be a pretty good troubleshooter and I am embarrassed to ask this, but since we all have problems I will ask anyway. This forum contains some similar problems regarding the installation of Windows XP. I would like to know specifically how to reinstall Windows XP over the current OS keeping all of my installed software intact without having to format the drive and do a new install. A new install is a breeze–nothing to it if you can read what is on your screen, but I do not want to have to format my drive or go through the Windows activation procedure again. I know I don’t have to format in order to install the software but that is how I usually do things to make sure I get a clean install of the OS. More often than not I also run wipe first or some sort of similar program. That gives me the equivalent of a “low-level” format by writing all zeros to the disk.
I want to make a couple of comments too: first, defraging the system in my opinion is a waste of time and effort. All in all it makes very little difference. Second, cleaning out the cache as suggested above is worth the time and effort. It can make a big difference, as can clearing up some of the programs that start when Windows does. As a matter of fact that is one of the best things you can do. I have seen systems that have so many TSR’s that it is a wonder the system runs at all. If you have more than 3 or 4 programs starting up when you boot into Windows you have too many. It is far better to run these programs when you need them. You might want to check into a program like Memturbo to free up memory that Windows fails to free when you close a program, and it might surprise you to know just how much memory Windows fails to free. It really irritates me that so many software packages add themselves to the startup when you intall them when it is not necessary. Your virus program would be an exception.
My System:
AMD XP Athlon 64-bit 3000+
1 GB DDR RAM – PC 3200
160 GB hard drive
Geforce 3 video with 128 MB DDR
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