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July 15th, 2005 13:00
Setting factory windows restore in Dell computer with current settings
I know that if I press F11 it will do a computer restore with the factory settings.
But since then I installed Visual Studio 2003 with MSDN (7 CDs), Adobe Creative Suite 2.0 (14 CDs), Dreamweaver, Microsoft Money 2003, and several other software.
I want to adjust the factory settings to include what I have now so that I don't have go back and spend two days time putting back all that I have.
Is there anyway I could do that?
Or even if Dell wouldn't allow adjustment to the factory settings - I would still be happy with an option to pay for shipping and support to send it to Dell to have it now set what I want to be the factory settings as currently on my machine.
I don't want AOL and the other options for internet since I currently use Time Warner and will always use them with my current contract.
I know that this may cause some trouble with what I want to do but how can you say that my machine is truly customized the way I want it?
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July 15th, 2005 13:00
No, there is really no way to do what you want. You can restore the originally shipped drive image, or you can reinstall the operating system and all of the applications exactly the way you want them. But there is no way to set the drive to "factory settings" with your apps.
My suggestion, although it's a lot of work. Reinstall the OS and all the applications exactly the way you want them, then use Acronis True Image of Ghost to save an image of that installation. Then at any point in the future, you can reinstall that image in just a few minutes.
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July 23rd, 2005 00:00
Message Edited by stanleymoswald on 07-22-2005 08:48 PM