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Well I woke up this morning to my computer not wanting to work. It would turn on, but just didnt want to boot windows. So I took it to my father in-law to have a look see. Apparently durning the night, my computer just forgot what windows was and how it worked. So he had to erase the hard drive and start over from scratch. At first it kind of sucked because we lost some pictures (though most were recently put onto discs and such) and Ill have to re download things I had previously. But I have to say that Im SHOCKED at how well this PC runs now lol. It was given to us used from my oldest brother, so it had a bunch of junk on it when we got it. But good ness its almost like a brand new computer. I just wanted to share this awesome moment with everyone!

When a computer is delivered from the manufacturer with an OS already installed, there is usually a whole pile of crapware installed on it.

By doing your own re-install you can eliminate all the crap and keep only the applications you actually need.

re format and hope the vendor gives you a copy of the OS on media otherwise your stumped and have to use the crappy image of the OS with all the junk to restore from..

Kilkrazy wrote:When a computer is delivered from the manufacturer with an OS already installed, there is usually a whole pile of crapware installed on it.

By doing your own re-install you can eliminate all the crap and keep only the applications you actually need.

Yanno I didnt think of that until you mentioned it either. Before hand, there was all kinds of gak on here that I didnt want or use. But I was always afraid of deleting something that was attached to something important. But its allllll gone now. Seriously my computer runs like one of those hyper little puppies that almost vibrate across the floors because they just cant stand still. Its really kind of freaky lol

Yep that's what happens when you reformat after a while. If you don't already, defragment the hard disk every month or so to help keep it running smoothly. Also definitely back up everything important just in case it dies. Some people say you should have two backups though

My wireless on the laptop died last night.

Now I have a desktop, laptop until I can get it fixed next week.

Ahhh lets bask in the glory of the incredibly rare, laptopdesktop! They really DO exist lol