Restoring Dell Inspiron 1501

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I'm sure you don't mean that. You've done pretty well so far, especially when you remember you were considering paying someone to sort it for you.

The wifi may or may not be a challenge. It depends on the wireless card and the security mode used by your router.

minigirl762003

Wifi was a piece of cake lol. Just downloading anti virus ready to do all the windows updates im sure there is waiting for me lol

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minigirl762003 wrote: »

Wifi was a piece of cake lol. Just downloading anti virus ready to do all the windows updates im sure there is waiting for me lol

A few hours' worth, at least

minigirl762003

101 windows updates to do. Hope its safe to leave the lappy running all night lol

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That's just the start. When they've finished there will probably be another load. Leaving it switched on should be fine. Mine never gets switched off

minigirl762003

Well it done the 101 updates and didnt set fire to the house lol. This morning it has another 25 updates to do so got to wait for those now.

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A bit like watching paint dry.

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When it's finished, post the info requested in post 44

minigirl762003

Yep will do Figment. Tho it seems to be stuck on update 1. Been installing it for about 20 mins now. Will just leave it to do its stuff.

minigirl762003

Hello. Hope ur having a good weekend.

Right its running Windows Vista Home Basic. Doesn't state which service pack however it has found more updates. These updates were published in 2008-2009 so gather there is a few more to go.

Its got 446 MB of RAM which i will upgrade, and the Processor is a Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3500+ 1.80 GHz (which means nothing to me lol)