Uninstall and Reinstall XP Pro

[hutch]

that's an extreme to just get rid of s/w files as
you could make special cd copies of all of your
non-critical files and purge and then keep those
you want
however - to help you do what you want - chk these - ie
1/
Windows XP Clean Install (Interactive Setup)
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.as
p
2/
HOW TO INSTALL, REINSTALL, AND UNINSTALL SOFTWARE
http://www.bootdisk.com/protips.htm
3/
INSTALLING, PARTITIONING AND FORMATTING HARD DRIVES
http://www.bootdisk.com/txtfiles/hdd.txt
note
there are many others
so
take it fr there

hth
God Bless
hutch


>-----Original Message-----
>I want to format my hard drive to get rid of all the
excess files that I
>have accumulated over the past year. I have never done
this before. Does
>anyone know of a tutorial that will give me step-by-step
instructions on how
>to do it? The only thing I know is to back everything up
first. Thanks very
>much for any directions.
>
>
>.
>

[jeannie]

If you think what I want to do is too extreme please recommend an
alternative. I have two computers on a network both running XP Pro and am
able to run a program I downloaded from the Net on one but not the other. At
one time I could run the downloaded program from both computers. It's the
computer that I can no longer run the downloaded program from that I wanted
to uninstall and reinstall the XP Pro OS from. If there is an easier way,
I'm all ears.
"hutch" > wrote in message
...
>
> that's an extreme to just get rid of s/w files as
> you could make special cd copies of all of your
> non-critical files and purge and then keep those
> you want
> however - to help you do what you want - chk these - ie
> 1/
> Windows XP Clean Install (Interactive Setup)
> http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.as
> p
> 2/
> HOW TO INSTALL, REINSTALL, AND UNINSTALL SOFTWARE
> http://www.bootdisk.com/protips.htm
> 3/
> INSTALLING, PARTITIONING AND FORMATTING HARD DRIVES
> http://www.bootdisk.com/txtfiles/hdd.txt
> note
> there are many others
> so
> take it fr there
>
> hth
> God Bless
> hutch
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I want to format my hard drive to get rid of all the
> excess files that I
> >have accumulated over the past year. I have never done
> this before. Does
> >anyone know of a tutorial that will give me step-by-step
> instructions on how
> >to do it? The only thing I know is to back everything up
> first. Thanks very
> >much for any directions.
> >
> >
> >.
> >