Total wipeout?

[Deleted User]

Hi,

as you might have seen from another thread, I've got a new, to me, laptop, Samsung

R710.

Now previous owner wiped his personal details, but has left a lot of rubbish games

etc, (74 running processes), he gave me 3 Samsung DVD,

System recovery media,

Cyberlink Suite and

System software Media.

I want to totally wipe things, what do I do?

Thanks.

asininity

Uninstall everything you don't want run registry cleaners, and file cleaners, run a defrag. Also run virus/spyware checks.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

thanks for reply,

have installed and run SuperAntiSpyware and Ad-Aware, not a lot of rubbish picked

up, but would like to get back to 'factory settings' if poss.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

took a chance and put in the System recovery media, now at 5 %, so see what

happens,

Just have another can to settle me.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

here's the up date,

everything fine, no problems, all I have now on Desktop is Recycle Bin, and no

rubbish in it yet, so why worry,

I'm so de-stressed now, think I'll just have another can.:beer:

GunJack

have you checked running processes in task manager ?? is it back down to a reasonable level ??

Marty_J

GunJack wrote: »

have you checked running processes in task manager ?? is it back down to a reasonable level ??

If the OP has just totally reinstalled Windows, I would assume so.

GunJack

BUT he said he'd used a recovery disk, not a full wipe & re-install, hence asking for clarification....

[Deleted User]

Hi,

running processes now 34, which seems a bit more reasonable, though havn't installed

anything yet.

I'll be going for what I'm used to, Avast, Ad-Aware, Comodo, Spybot

Spywareblaster and SuperAntiSpyware.

Just wondering, before I start installing, now that it all went so well, whether to instal

XP instead, as I'm used to it, I have a genuine disc, so should be no problem?

Any thoughts?

asininity

Depends on the spec of the laptop, vista is fine really. I'd personally swap out comodo with PCTools firewall, and scrap spybot as compared to SAS its next to useless. Also because PCTools firewall comes with Threatfire you shouldn't need spywareblaster.

aliEnRIK

Spybots IMMUNISE feature is very useful. As is spywareblaster as they both prevent nasties 'at the source'