Well, a bunch of spyware, virus's and malware are on my computer, and I was wonderin how do you uninstall everything then reinstall it

like Uninstalling Window's and reinstalling or, something like that.

I got Sony Vaio Recovery DVD, but that just install's stuff.

I alrdy put everything I needed into a cd so Once everything is gone I'll be able to install back the important stuff. so If anyone has any step by step's I can do, please let me know.

What virus u got? TROJ Vundo? That thing is fckin annoying. If you use Trend Micro I got rid of it by TM rolling back my PC a few times

I believe you want to reformat. Reformat would mean delete everything off the entire hard drive and then reinstall windows.

It's not very hard. Just Google a tutorial for reformatting Windows XP (or whichever version your using).

AVG The best Anti Virus program. EVER!

All you need to do is download the trial

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Oct 16 2007, 9:35 pm by Akar.

To many to list haha, yha I dont want to pay nor download any antispyware becuase I think it's all bs and scam artists. Lol


Yha this is exactly what I need to do, I'll google somethin up hopefully.


Thanks for the recommendation but Im not looking for more stuff on my computer that's why I need to reformat.


thank you all for your help and opinion's.


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Damn I cannot Reformat I cant find my Window's XP CD : (.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Oct 17 2007, 12:52 am by SteamBoy.

reformatting isn't entirely hard, all you have to do is throw in your windows XP CD, reboot, boot from disc, go to your partitions, delete the partition you already have, than make a new partition and reformat that one. Than install Windows XP all over again. Download Windows SP2 and your good to go.

yha, I cant find my Windows XP disc though, I might have to go buy one damnit Lol

Save yourself some money and start taking care of your computer then.

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

Iv got a question, I got a Sony Vaio Computer, and on the side of the tower it give's a list of software and spec's that this computer has and on the side of it says

Windows XP Home Edition. so if I did reformat would it already be installed ??

Cracking is bad, m'kay?


If you Formated: No

If you system restored: Yes


When you restart your computer, press F1 through F12 until you get a screen that asks about how you want to start up your computer (at least this is how my Sony Vaio Laptop worked), or the delete button.. (Delete usually gets you into BIOS though, and that isn't what you need...). If you had your Windows XP disk, you would either restart in command prompt, and type "cd.." until you got back to the root drive C:, then you'd type:

format C:

Then follow the procedures, or boot from the CD and just reinstall windows.


But that wouldn't fix the mal-ware problem any, just replace all the windows files 'n stuff.



If you have any option of system restoring, just system restore your computer back to the earliest date you have it (more then likely the day of installation) and it would fix your problem..



But the easiest way (since you've backed everything up) is to just format the hard-drive (reformat would mean formatting after formatting ;-P) and create a partition (or partitions) for windows to be able to be installed on.


If you have a big ass hard-drive, then you could create more than one partition, for seperate "storage" I guess (if you want to loose some space because you're too lazy to organize your whole computer)

C: (Hard-drive partition 1)
D: (Hard-drive partition 2)
E: (CD-ROM drive)
F: (A secondary CD-ROM drive if applicable)
A: (Floppy if applicable)
Z: (ZIP if applicable)

The "advantage" of this, would be that you could have two seperate hard-drives within one hard-drive.

The disadvantage (to my knowledge) is that you loose some MBs of space (possibly even GBs) if you have more than one partition.


Hope I helped.

Omg this helped me out so much, and made me learn more about the computer Lol like the hidden files, I deleted over 100 files that weren't needed thanks to that option : ) such as limewire stuff "albumart" crazy stuff. Im still following the steps. and it seems im not getting any pop ups anymore : D thanks mini moose <3


I decided not to reformat yet, because I followed some step's that Mini Moose provided and it seem'd to work. But I'll refer back to your post if I do decided to reformat so thank you vary much.



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... you're retarded...

AVG has a free version, you don't have to crack anything.
http://free.grisoft.com/

Thanks Mini for teaching them that :l.I was getting annoyed lol btw for any futher computer troubles just go to majorgeeks.com they got it all.

No... the trial is fully functional... you don't need to crack the thing.

........Just not as much as you


I know that. I used to have the free version.


Annnnnnnnnnd no its not. Unless they've changed their policy within the past 6 months. Last time I used it, there was a Free version, but you couldn't use certain aspects of the program.

That doesn't make it fully functional.

Uhhh dude all the trail/free version has that the full version doesn't is internet protection which is like not needed because,if you have any and I do mean any idea where not to go your fine.

Actually, no you're not.

I've witnessed my friends computer get hacked while we were on it.

He had disabled everything that protects his computer (besides Virus and Spy-ware)

Someone got in through open ports that were not closed because of him disabling his internet security programs.


But that's something that would only happen in a movie with most people's mentalities here

Hey dummy did you read what you said he got hacked by turning off everything besides anti virus and spyware.Meaning no firewall that which takes care of your fucking ports.Thats why whoever got through also to correct you further internet sercurity only warns you from bad sites and is like a online anti spyware.So please stfu you are just looking dumber.

Hey cluterfuck, I didn't say he turned off the firewall smart ass. He isn't THAT stupid you reject.

There are hackers out there that know how to bypass the pathetic ass Windows Firewall, I used to live with someone who went to school for Computer Networking and Security, and he hacked through my firewall on our own network.

Twitch, you're the apitome of dumb. I just love how you fabricate words and claim that I said them.

He didn't turn off his Firewall like you claim he did (Can you read minds now? I want that power!), and he manually went in and closed off most the ports on his Router as well.



Keep looking retarded, cluterfuck.