And another thing...once you do the clean install, set up a password in the bios so the machine won't load Windows until a password is entered. You will need to enter setup to do this (set password) prior to Windows loading. Then smash his hands again with the bat.


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William R. Blanchard

Dell Dimension XPS T450
Pentium III 576MB RAM
Windows 98
IE 6
Toshiba DVD ROM
Use Cable Modem
Service Tag - 0RJJT

first thing first. Get a baseball bat and smash your roomates fingers. Then do a full clean install, if you never did this before call dell tech surrport for some help with this. But if you can try to do this during the day due to at night you'll be talking to someone in India. It helps when you can understand what's the persons saying.

thanks for the info, roommate looking for another place to live..

I'm surprised no-one recommended the gallows!

Charles,
Tag # 6VMY111

Dimension 8200, Bios A03
1.8 ghz P4
256 mb Ram
80 gb HD
NVidia GEForce3 TI200
Dell M991 monitor
Samsung 308b DVD/CDRW combo
Telephony modem
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound (SCR4142 driver)
Altec Lansing ADA995 (1BT)
Windows XP Home
Roxio Easy CDCreator 5.02d (platinum)
Office XP Pro (retail)
Power DVD 4 (retail upgrade)
Norton SystemWorks 2002 (retail)

tstp,

You can get full instructions for reinstalling your OS here;


http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp

Print the instructions out so you can follow them. I'm assuming you have Windows XP. If you have ME go here;


http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?DN=TT1036679

Where did you find such a helpful roomate .

Good Luck,

Marvin P



XPS B800r
512MBz Ram
Windows XP (2/1/02)
&
8200 1.8G
512MBz Ram
XP
&
Truck Vanity Plate "Dell4Me" (Maine)


Message Edited on 03/21/02 11:32AM by Marvin P

Yeahhhhhh. String 'em up! Bring on the posse!

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William R. Blanchard

Dell Dimension XPS T450
Pentium III 576MB RAM
Windows 98
IE 6
Toshiba DVD ROM
Use Cable Modem
Service Tag - 0RJJT