re-installing vista

hi,

i bought a vista-ready PC 18 months ago, and have been using XP since then.
but when vista came out, as part of agreement when i bought my PC i was sent
a vista CD.

i upgraded to vista a few weeks ago, but i've been having problems with
anti-virus softwares, i've tried about 5 now (separately) and they all create
problems with IE

anyway, since then i keep now getting error messages, things like "host
process not responding so it is shutting down" and lots of other things not
responding so shutting down.

so i wanna reset my PC to way it was a few weeks ago when i had fresh
installed vista... can i do that with these upgrade CD's? (they sent me 2, 1
with drivers and 1 from MS with vista on it). thanks

Hi,

Most of those disks are recovery software that wipes the drive and replaces
it with a fresh image though there are exceptions. You'd have to check with
the individual manufacturer on the capability of the one you have.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"puthp" <> wrote in message
news:C7430356-80F5-4179-B16E-...
> hi,
>
> i bought a vista-ready PC 18 months ago, and have been using XP since
> then.
> but when vista came out, as part of agreement when i bought my PC i was
> sent
> a vista CD.
>
> i upgraded to vista a few weeks ago, but i've been having problems with
> anti-virus softwares, i've tried about 5 now (separately) and they all
> create
> problems with IE
>
> anyway, since then i keep now getting error messages, things like "host
> process not responding so it is shutting down" and lots of other things
> not
> responding so shutting down.
>
> so i wanna reset my PC to way it was a few weeks ago when i had fresh
> installed vista... can i do that with these upgrade CD's? (they sent me 2,
> 1
> with drivers and 1 from MS with vista on it). thanks

You haven't mentioned the names of the 5 anti-virus software packages that
you tried. I'm assuming that at least three of them were freeware; and most
likely when you had problems with them, you tried to uninstall them and
replace them with other freeware. You may be having problems now with the
current anti-virus software because one or more of the other anti-virus
software did not uninstall properly therefore causing conflicts. When you get
your OS stable I'd suggest that you purchase a quality anti-malware software
package and use the free support that comes with it.
--
oscar

....Right click is your very good friend...


"puthp" wrote:

> hi,
>
> i bought a vista-ready PC 18 months ago, and have been using XP since then.
> but when vista came out, as part of agreement when i bought my PC i was sent
> a vista CD.
>
> i upgraded to vista a few weeks ago, but i've been having problems with
> anti-virus softwares, i've tried about 5 now (separately) and they all create
> problems with IE
>
> anyway, since then i keep now getting error messages, things like "host
> process not responding so it is shutting down" and lots of other things not
> responding so shutting down.
>
> so i wanna reset my PC to way it was a few weeks ago when i had fresh
> installed vista... can i do that with these upgrade CD's? (they sent me 2, 1
> with drivers and 1 from MS with vista on it). thanks