PCbanter - View Single Post - Should I re-install XP Home?

**philo [_3_]** · February 25th 14, 10:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

On 02/25/2014 02:41 PM, wrote:
I was given three free computers, which were going to be thrown away.
One had nothing inside the case, except the MB, so that one is only for
parts. Another one I'll be working on, after I get a hard drive for it.
The third one booted right up, and except for a bad CD drive, all the
hardware works fine. I replaced the CD drive.

The OS is XP Home Sp2. It was password protected, but I turned out the
password was the person's name, so I got past that, and immediately
removed the password, since I dont need or want a password.

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If you are sure there is no malware or virus on the machine you may want
to create a new administrative profile, log on to it,. then delete the
old profile and you will have as close to a clean system as you can get
that machine without doing a whole new install.