That's right. Restore it to the factory defaults, and start from scratch. Here's my plan:
1. Copy my contacts, bookmarks, music, photos, documents and downloads (setup files for downloaded software, i.e.: antivirus, ad-aware, etc.) to both an external hard drive and my other laptop.
2. Nuke it.
3. Download all the Windows updates.
4. Reinstall antivirus software and updates.
5. Copy all items from #2 back to the computer.
6. Reinstall all the software I use regularly.
7. Uninstall all the crap they put on new computers to sell crappy software.
8. Do a backup to create a restore point for when I have to do this again.
Any suggestions to improve my plan of attack?
1. Copy my contacts, bookmarks, music, photos, documents and downloads (setup files for downloaded software, i.e.: antivirus, ad-aware, etc.) to both an external hard drive and my other laptop.
2. Nuke it.
3. Download all the Windows updates.
4. Reinstall antivirus software and updates.
5. Copy all items from #2 back to the computer.
6. Reinstall all the software I use regularly.
7. Uninstall all the crap they put on new computers to sell crappy software.
8. Do a backup to create a restore point for when I have to do this again.
Any suggestions to improve my plan of attack?