How to clean up my dads computer?

Question

My father's computer is extremely slow and it is cluttered up with ALOT of useless software (so much so that no one knows what any of it is or where it all came from). It will take days to sort through everything that on it. Is their a way to restore windows to how it was as if we just bought it with only the stuff that normally comes with windows xp without useing system restore [no restore point] or reinstalling windows xp?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

It's called Destruction System Recovery. Get your computer's manual, it it will tell you how to burn the discs, and you can pop them in and restore your computer to factory settings.

Answer 3

Well when you boot up a windows xp installation disk, there is an option to repair without reformatting the drive...but that's not going to help you in your case..I would just use the add or remove programs tool to get rid of all those pointless programs.  Then do a defrag.  That should help at least a little.  

I definitely reccomend backing important files and just doing a reformat.  It is truely the best way to get your computer working how it used to. I do it yearly.

Answer 4

Unless you are prepared to uninstall each program manually then i recomend a format and reinstall. I would check with your Dad first, before interferring with his computer

Answer 5

Use reg cleaner, it can help u to speed up you computer.

Programs such as RegCure Go to:Http://top5registrycleanerreviews.com/re...  work by scanning all of your files and hard drives and then creates a cue report of any problems if finds. It's not uncommon to find out that your computer has literally hundreds of irregular settings and errors - in fact when we did a test of the program on a computer in our office, it found 916 errors on the initial trial scan.

The main advantage of using a registry repair program is it will instantly fix the majority of the problems that are slowing down your computer quickly and safely - and is a whole lot cheaper than having a technician look at your computer. It also has a feature that allows you to stop programs from loading when you turn on your computer which is often a problem for older systems with too many start up applications trying to get started every time you boot your machine up. In addition, Registry Patrol will also clean what is called your cache files which will dramatically speed up your internet performance.

This may help!

Answer 6

Using a registry cleaner can clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some registry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".

Every time you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Registry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!

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You can download and scan your computer for free.