Man you know what programs do these days? They automatically download themselves without asking, then they parade around as spyware protectors and download a bunch of virus's and tell you that to get rid of them, you need to buy their software..

Its the dumbest scam I've seen in my life.. Like anyone would ever buy their shit to get rid of a problem they started. I'll try putting the xp cd in now and see if it works.. Its still a hassel compared to how it used to be..

First computer I ever got was like.. 128mhz or something around there.. Used to play doom 2 on it -_-

^^^^^^^^this fuggin pirating and hacker shit is annoyin

my firewal reported that someone in KOREA attempted to hack my shit at 2:32 Am EST


FUGGIN KOREA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol Nos no you dont...what you want to do is completely reinstall windows and delete everything on your hardrive so its like brand new?...if so

when your computer starts up it should say something like press delete for setup or something or BIOS, press delete before the windows thing starts up where it should say the brand name of your motherboard in the beginning...press delete and it will go into BIOS. Then go to the drives section which will have your hardrives and cd/dvd drives listed, the first drive thats being checked is the floppy which is why you say you need a floppy 98 boot disc but you dont, you have to switch the floppy from 1st and replace it with your cd/dvd drive...this means that instead of the computer booting something from the floppy it will look on the disc. So just switch the floppy with the cd/dvd shit, restart and put the cd in and it will run the boot setup, not the original windows installation...during the boot shit it wont be installing windows but it will ask if you want to delete your hardrive completely and install only windows on it, if you want to, delete it and go on with the windows installation

thats all if you want to install windows xp on a machine without a boot disc

peace

Just read what strobe wrote...well those are the steps to what strobe was saying

and nos programs dont download themsevles you need to trigger them, you're not running your computer the right way lol i get no virus's, spyware, etc....and i have 2 firewalls, 1 antivirus, and 1 anti-spyware program i dont get nothing, it all depends on what your doing and how you run your computer, if you dont know nothing about computers your computer is most likely gonna get fucked up cuz things on the internet pop up and you just want them to go away so u end up clicking something off and it might be something to download something else, you just gotta look at what your doin and shit.

if you have mad spyware and virus's and shit then yea reformat your machine and start from scratch its the best way good luck

peace

AAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA. Having your computer up for a length of time that you cna actually record AHAHHHHAHAHAH, shit. I've had my macs running for about 3 years now and never been "down" a single time.

To protect the idiots out there who will screw their computer up while thinking they are loading a game.

I have the 6 XP boot disk's sitting right infront of me. I'll load them up and go through the process today and see if it gives me the option to reformat before installation. And I have my bios configured for floppy disk's from a previous reformat.

Websites can download things to your computer when you visit them automatically without telling you. I know what I'm doing, this usually wouldnt be a problem except the spyware also turned my system restore off and lost all of my save points. They also automatically move important system .dll files into their directory so that if you delete their folder thinking it will get rid of it, your computer will stop running. You might say, the only reason I'm still able to use this computer at the moment is because I know what I'm doing. At the time that this happened I hadnt installed any firewalls or spyware protectors though, that was my problem.

I doubt people that are that computer illiterate would think to press f8 at the start up screen and select an option for restarting in dos. XP simply doesent give an option to restart in dos properly. Which is bullshit, .....hence the point of this thread.

You'd be surprised man. There are a lot of idiots out there. They would get frustrated and start pressing random buttons, or hit a button on accident and just start messing with the files. I met a dude who didn't know what Google was, so ya.

These idiots you talk of would have to press F8 at the second boot screen, then sift through the choices down to restart in dos, then they would have to by some extremily crazy chance know to type into dos "c:\>format c: /s" and then after dos tells them in capitol letters "THIS WILL ERASE ALL INFORMATION FROM YOUR SELECTED DRIVE OR PARTITION, DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE" they would have to press yes.. and then they would need to know the label of the drive or partition and only then would this work.

Dumb people can play around in dos all they like it probably wont get them anywhere unless they know the correct commands.. But anyone stupid enough to do all that just by chance shouldnt deserve to have a computer anyway.

What it need sto do is jsut be a stable environment instead of offering solutions to problems, it should eliminate the problems. that's what you get for a half-assed system that's a stolen watered down copy of another system, lol.