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.
wblanchard
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March 21st, 2002 10:00
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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
whole9yard
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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)
Marvin P
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March 21st, 2002 14:00
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)
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8200 1.8G
512MBz Ram
XP
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Truck Vanity Plate "Dell4Me" (Maine)
Message Edited on 03/21/02 11:32AM by Marvin P
wblanchard
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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