Doing a Clean install

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Posted by 1959a on November 19, 2006, 5:53 pm

My son is having this problems with his side of the desk top computer but my
side seems to be running fine , So what I'm trying to fine out if I delete
him as a account user , and do a fresh clean install of Windows XP Pro, how
would one go about doing a clean install lose all information , then I could
just install (printer,screen ,key borad , mouse , etc ) then only have ONE
user for the whole computer.
Milton

Helping all makes everyone Happier
Thanks to all Who do this..(^_^)

Posted by Anando [MVP] on November 19, 2006, 7:12 pm

Hello,

You do not need to delete his user account if you are performing a clean
install; everything gets deleted anyways and you start from scratch.
However, before you take a drastic step such as a clean install, why dont
you try to troubleshoot the problems that you are having ?

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> My son is having this problems with his side of the desk top computer but
> my
> side seems to be running fine , So what I'm trying to fine out if I delete
> him as a account user , and do a fresh clean install of Windows XP Pro,
> how
> would one go about doing a clean install lose all information , then I
> could
> just install (printer,screen ,key borad , mouse , etc ) then only have ONE
> user for the whole computer.
> Milton
> Helping all makes everyone Happier
> Thanks to all Who do this..(^_^)

Posted by S.Sengupta on November 19, 2006, 7:19 pm

Do some reading here:-

Clean installation:-

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Repair installation:-
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

1959a wrote:

> My son is having this problems with his side of the desk top computer but my
> side seems to be running fine , So what I'm trying to fine out if I delete
> him as a account user , and do a fresh clean install of Windows XP Pro, how
> would one go about doing a clean install lose all information , then I could
> just install (printer,screen ,key borad , mouse , etc ) then only have ONE
> user for the whole computer.
> Milton
>
> Helping all makes everyone Happier
> Thanks to all Who do this..(^_^)

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