Originally Posted by Nostradamus

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.