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my laptop is buggered
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pls help me! i need to format the hard drive, but i cant bcos it takes about 40mins from when i type in my password until when everything loadsa up+alot of the time it doesnt finish loading. i need to save alot of work on it b4 i format it, so does anyone have any genius advice pls?
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If that fails you could try a CD Boot up and just copy your files onto a Removeable device...
Yep, that pretty much sums it up... There isn't much else you can try...
how do i acces my docs thru that pathway?
wots a cd bootup??
sorry
Thought you would know
Safe Mode: Start your computer and start hitting the hell out of the F8 Key normaly next to F7 and F9 (that was a joke)
And choose safe mode it dont matter which one you choose but not Command thing
From there you will see aload of stuff on your screen YOU HAVE A VIRUS! (another joke)
From there windows will load you will notice things look weird when you choose the username choose Admin And from there your be logged into the Admin Version of windows and have full control over the computer and files
Plug in your device or what ever your backing up too and then go into My Computer > C: > Documents and settings > and find your username and find your files and copy!
CD Boot you would need a "Live" Version of an OS Which i doubt you have so no need to worry
NOW: can anyone recommend the worlds best anit virus scan that will work against viruses,trojans, pop ups,etc?
I recommend AVG Free, Adaware, Firefox, and common sense!
You have most likely had a bad experience with McAfee!
I recommend McAfee Or Windows One Care Live
thanx guys,just saying everything+then gonna format it! woop
OH, because i started it in safe mode that 1 time, will it always start up like that?
It'll start your computer with the bare minimum of stuff installed, Alternatively you can click on "Selective startup" and go through the Services and Startup group unchecking stuff you don't want to load at startup.
Both options would dramatically speed up the starting speed of your laptop, but if you're going to format then you probably won't want to do this.
Not paticularly, I prefer Mcaffe over norton, but I've still had a load of shitty little problems with mcaffee on tonnes of my clients machines.
Oh and don't talk to me about Onecare, It tried to defrag a network drive and broke it, You seemingly can't exclude network drives from defrag, nor can you chose where you want to backup to, it's either "usb pen" or "usb pen".
Personally I prefer AVG/nod32/kaspersky over the "big" antivirus, as they do just what they say on the tin, and don't try to control every aspect of security on your computer. But that's just me
I cant be doing with all the Defragging onecare is fine for vista and what im doing at the moment and McAfee is fine for me too! i cant believe you pick it over Norton! come on NORTON! its the worst thing in my eyes
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