Re booting computer - any advice

Cat72

Hi
My computer is 4 years old and have had a few hiccups with it lately. Have ccleaner, avast,ad ware, ran hardware cleaning etc and have regularily cleaned it but i think it has just got to much info fed into it over the years. I am thinking the best thing would be to re boot it back to the factory settings and start again. I did this once when i first got it but have forgot how to now! The computer came installed with windows xp so how do you re boot , and does it seem a good idea. I will copy my files i need on to disc and have the discs for my factory settings, router, broadband etc. Any suggestions, advice ,opinions ? thanks

boogiemaster

With my old computer I put in a floppy disk and rebooted the computer, and then it told me to insert the cd rom.
It scanned the disk and the cd rom and then it installed all the software back to factory settings.
You should have one cd rom and a floppy?
Also buy a bigger hard drive if yours is getting full? Computers slow down when the hard drive gets full

If no cd or floppy? set bios to boot from cd rom then insert XP disk and sit back and wait a long long time!