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My OS is vista home premium , a Dell laptop Inspiron 1420, 32 bit , 2GB Ram,
120GB Hard Drive, Dual Layer 8X DVD Burner. I'd like to know if I can " turn
the clock back ", putting my laptop back to the day I bought it. I have
already downloaded whatever files I want to keep on some cds. If it's
possible to do, I need someone to show me step by step procedures. Yes, I
have the disks that came with the laptop. My laptop is only 4 months old,
but it's running like an old man , and I suspect that's because whoever set
it up had put a lot of "junks" in before I bought it. Trouble is , I can't
tell which is which, so I don't dare to uninstall them. Anyone with the
patience to lead me along ?

supplimentery infos : I've done disk clean, defrag, disk compressed a lot of
times. They are not helping.
"jihchiang" <> wrote in message
news:B889B2DD-81D6-4B81-81A2-...
> My OS is vista home premium , a Dell laptop Inspiron 1420, 32 bit , 2GB
> Ram, 120GB Hard Drive, Dual Layer 8X DVD Burner. I'd like to know if I can
> " turn the clock back ", putting my laptop back to the day I bought it. I
> have already downloaded whatever files I want to keep on some cds. If it's
> possible to do, I need someone to show me step by step procedures. Yes, I
> have the disks that came with the laptop. My laptop is only 4 months old,
> but it's running like an old man , and I suspect that's because whoever
> set it up had put a lot of "junks" in before I bought it. Trouble is , I
> can't tell which is which, so I don't dare to uninstall them. Anyone with
> the patience to lead me along ?

additional infos : I had tried disk clean, defrag, disk compressed quite a
few times. They didn't help at all.
"jihchiang" <> wrote in message
news:B889B2DD-81D6-4B81-81A2-...
> My OS is vista home premium , a Dell laptop Inspiron 1420, 32 bit , 2GB
> Ram, 120GB Hard Drive, Dual Layer 8X DVD Burner. I'd like to know if I can
> " turn the clock back ", putting my laptop back to the day I bought it. I
> have already downloaded whatever files I want to keep on some cds. If it's
> possible to do, I need someone to show me step by step procedures. Yes, I
> have the disks that came with the laptop. My laptop is only 4 months old,
> but it's running like an old man , and I suspect that's because whoever
> set it up had put a lot of "junks" in before I bought it. Trouble is , I
> can't tell which is which, so I don't dare to uninstall them. Anyone with
> the patience to lead me along ?

"Bob" <> wrote:

> How do I restore my Inspiron 1420 (Vista Home Premium) back to the
> original factory condition?

Sadly, a restore to factory default will also restore crapware bundled by
the OEM. You need to do a clean install of Vista (with an installation disk)
to avoid that. The second best thing to do, is uninstalling OEM software
after the reinstall.

Charlie42

Hi,
After restoring to out of the box condition (See Bob's reply) visit this
page
Introducing the Dell De-Crapifier: http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/04/38

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"jihchiang" <> wrote in message
news:B889B2DD-81D6-4B81-81A2-...
> My OS is vista home premium , a Dell laptop Inspiron 1420, 32 bit , 2GB
Ram,
> 120GB Hard Drive, Dual Layer 8X DVD Burner. I'd like to know if I can "
turn
> the clock back ", putting my laptop back to the day I bought it. I have
> already downloaded whatever files I want to keep on some cds. If it's
> possible to do, I need someone to show me step by step procedures. Yes, I
> have the disks that came with the laptop. My laptop is only 4 months old,
> but it's running like an old man , and I suspect that's because whoever
set
> it up had put a lot of "junks" in before I bought it. Trouble is , I can't
> tell which is which, so I don't dare to uninstall them. Anyone with the
> patience to lead me along ?
>

"Charlie42" <> wrote in message
news:OyX%...
> "Bob" <> wrote:
>
>> How do I restore my Inspiron 1420 (Vista Home Premium) back to the original
>> factory condition?
>
> Sadly, a restore to factory default will also restore crapware bundled by the
> OEM. You need to do a clean install of Vista (with an installation disk) to
> avoid that. The second best thing to do, is uninstalling OEM software after
> the reinstall.
>
> Charlie42
A quickie approach to the second best thing to do:
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/apps

Bob, I went to the site and copy down the whole page of instructions. I got
stuck on step 10 which is :
Type the following lines, press Enter after each line : -
Path=D:/WINDOWS;D:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32
D:
CD TOOLS
PCRESTORE
I got stuck in CD TOOLS. windows said " The system cannot find the path
specified "
Then just for the hell of it, I typed in the last line which was PCRESTORE
( note, no spacing between the two words ). The windows said " `PC` is not
recognized as an internal or external command , operable program or batch
file.
I followed the step-by-step to the letter. Now what ?
"Bob" <> wrote in message
news:. ..
> How do I restore my Inspiron 1420 (Vista Home Premium) back to the
> original factory condition?
> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=189675
> --
> *Report back, please*
>
> How to ask a question
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
> http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm
> http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm
>
> "jihchiang" <> wrote in message
> news:B889B2DD-81D6-4B81-81A2-...
>> My OS is vista home premium , a Dell laptop Inspiron 1420, 32 bit , 2GB
>> Ram, 120GB Hard Drive, Dual Layer 8X DVD Burner. I'd like to know if I
>> can " turn the clock back ", putting my laptop back to the day I bought
>> it. I have already downloaded whatever files I want to keep on some cds.
>> If it's possible to do, I need someone to show me step by step
>> procedures. Yes, I have the disks that came with the laptop. My laptop is
>> only 4 months old, but it's running like an old man , and I suspect
>> that's because whoever set it up had put a lot of "junks" in before I
>> bought it. Trouble is , I can't tell which is which, so I don't dare to
>> uninstall them. Anyone with the patience to lead me along ?
>

Contact Dell.
--
*Report back, please*

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm
http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm


"jihchiang" <> wrote in message
news:3B2868BF-B4A7-4839-A350-...
> Bob, I went to the site and copy down the whole page of instructions. I
> got stuck on step 10 which is :
> Type the following lines, press Enter after each line : -
> Path=D:/WINDOWS;D:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32
> D:
> CD TOOLS
> PCRESTORE
> I got stuck in CD TOOLS. windows said " The system cannot find the path
> specified "
> Then just for the hell of it, I typed in the last line which was
> PCRESTORE ( note, no spacing between the two words ). The windows said "
> `PC` is not recognized as an internal or external command , operable
> program or batch file.
> I followed the step-by-step to the letter. Now what ?
> "Bob" <> wrote in message
> news:. ..
>> How do I restore my Inspiron 1420 (Vista Home Premium) back to the
>> original factory condition?
>> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=189675
>> --
>> *Report back, please*
>>
>> How to ask a question
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
>> http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm
>> http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm
>>
>> "jihchiang" <> wrote in message
>> news:B889B2DD-81D6-4B81-81A2-...
>>> My OS is vista home premium , a Dell laptop Inspiron 1420, 32 bit , 2GB
>>> Ram, 120GB Hard Drive, Dual Layer 8X DVD Burner. I'd like to know if I
>>> can " turn the clock back ", putting my laptop back to the day I bought
>>> it. I have already downloaded whatever files I want to keep on some cds.
>>> If it's possible to do, I need someone to show me step by step
>>> procedures. Yes, I have the disks that came with the laptop. My laptop
>>> is only 4 months old, but it's running like an old man , and I suspect
>>> that's because whoever set it up had put a lot of "junks" in before I
>>> bought it. Trouble is , I can't tell which is which, so I don't dare to
>>> uninstall them. Anyone with the patience to lead me along ?
>>
>

Thank you , Don
"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
> After restoring to out of the box condition (See Bob's reply) visit this
> page
> Introducing the Dell De-Crapifier: http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/04/38
>
> Hope this helps,
> Don
> [MS MVP- IE]
>
> "jihchiang" <> wrote in message
> news:B889B2DD-81D6-4B81-81A2-...
>> My OS is vista home premium , a Dell laptop Inspiron 1420, 32 bit , 2GB
> Ram,
>> 120GB Hard Drive, Dual Layer 8X DVD Burner. I'd like to know if I can "
> turn
>> the clock back ", putting my laptop back to the day I bought it. I have
>> already downloaded whatever files I want to keep on some cds. If it's
>> possible to do, I need someone to show me step by step procedures. Yes, I
>> have the disks that came with the laptop. My laptop is only 4 months old,
>> but it's running like an old man , and I suspect that's because whoever
> set
>> it up had put a lot of "junks" in before I bought it. Trouble is , I
>> can't
>> tell which is which, so I don't dare to uninstall them. Anyone with the
>> patience to lead me along ?
>>
>