Dell Windows XP factory reset.

Hello Experts,


I have Latitude D505 laptop with Windows XP, kept updated to latest Windows SP3 .. however, to ensure I have good speed and efficiency I would require to do factory resets from time to time.

I hear that Microsoft will stop support of SP1, SP2 and in couple of years to complete XP. I have the following questions..

1. Please can you give me the complete procedure for Dell Latitude D505 factory reset (with or without install disks) ..

2. I see in various forums that if I do factory reset, all my windows update which I have been doing for ages will be gone !
How to know which service pack my laptop will revert when I do factory reset.

3. Given that Microsoft support wouldn't be there, what does that mean ? Cannot I do factory resets after 2 years from now.

4. How about SP 2 ? If my laptop resets to SP1a, How to do I download SP2 ? http://www.microsoft.com/download/en...ylang=en&id=28 and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322389#tosp3 Can I use this link to download to upgrade my laptop ? and use windows update to upgrade to SP3 ?

5. What are the Pros and cons of downloading them in removal drive and installing them separately vs using windows update.

What does Microsoft support stop actually mean to users ?

Please can someone give me the answers.

Thanks in Advance.
- P

On 04/07/2012 07:06 PM, Protocoder wrote:
Hello Experts,


I have Latitude D505 laptop with Windows XP, kept updated to latest
Windows SP3 .. however, to ensure I have good speed and efficiency I
would require to do factory resets from time to time.

I hear that Microsoft will stop support of SP1, SP2 and in couple of
years to complete XP. I have the following questions..

1. Please can you give me the complete procedure for Dell Latitude D505
factory reset (with or without install disks) ..

2. I see in various forums that if I do factory reset, all my windows
update which I have been doing for ages will be gone !
How to know which service pack my laptop will revert when I do factory
reset.

3. Given that Microsoft support wouldn't be there, what does that mean ?
Cannot I do factory resets after 2 years from now.

4. How about SP 2 ? If my laptop resets to SP1a, How to do I download
SP2 ? http://tinyurl.com/6fh7x6e and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322389#tosp3 Can I use this link to
download to upgrade my laptop ? and use windows update to upgrade to SP3
?

5. What are the Pros and cons of downloading them in removal drive and
installing them separately vs using windows update.

What does Microsoft support stop actually mean to users ?

Please can someone give me the answers.

Thanks in Advance.
- P








First off, if your machine resets to SP1 then you can skip sp2 and go
right to sp3.

You can simply download sp3 and save to to cd.

NOTE: Just because Microsoft will not be writing new updates for XP the
current updates such as sp3 should still be available on their site for
quite some time

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