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Conficker fried my 'Dell.
My daughter loaded that conficker to a XP 'DELL'. I cleaned it out with
various removal software and reloaded Windows XP Professional. The problem now is that I 'only' have XP loaded on to a 2 gig hard drive and I only have @ 124 mb of free space left...there obviously is lots of hidden files and folders; how do I get rid of them. I have tried all the disc cleanup and defragment routines with no luck...HELP! -- Not a thought |
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Conficker fried my 'Dell.
Pacoman said this on 4/2/2009 4:14 PM:
My daughter loaded that conficker to a XP 'DELL'. I cleaned it out with various removal software and reloaded Windows XP Professional. The problem now is that I 'only' have XP loaded on to a 2 gig hard drive and I only have @ 124 mb of free space left...there obviously is lots of hidden files and folders; how do I get rid of them. I have tried all the disc cleanup and defragment routines with no luck...HELP! As cheap as drives are, you should have taken the time to put in a new drive and install to that. 40 gig drives are so cheap. On a virgin load of a system, I don't think you're going to get much off of it. If you had a XP Gold, XP SP1 or even XP SP2 CD and then did all the service pack and updates, those can be messy. You could have taken your XP CD and slipstream it up to SP3 level, even with DELL Drivers, and then when you reload the PC you have nothing to upgrade but the patches applied post SP3. Would be a lot less 'trash' on the computer. |
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Conficker fried my 'Dell.
Pacoman said this on 4/2/2009 4:14 PM:
My daughter loaded that conficker to a XP 'DELL'. I cleaned it out with various removal software and reloaded Windows XP Professional. The problem now is that I 'only' have XP loaded on to a 2 gig hard drive and I only have @ 124 mb of free space left...there obviously is lots of hidden files and folders; how do I get rid of them. I have tried all the disc cleanup and defragment routines with no luck...HELP! As cheap as drives are, you should have taken the time to put in a new drive and install to that. 40 gig drives are so cheap. On a virgin load of a system, I don't think you're going to get much off of it. If you had a XP Gold, XP SP1 or even XP SP2 CD and then did all the service pack and updates, those can be messy. You could have taken your XP CD and slipstream it up to SP3 level, even with DELL Drivers, and then when you reload the PC you have nothing to upgrade but the patches applied post SP3. Would be a lot less 'trash' on the computer. |
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Conficker fried my 'Dell.
"Pacoman" wrote: My daughter loaded that conficker to a XP 'DELL'. I cleaned it out with various removal software and reloaded Windows XP Professional. The problem now is that I 'only' have XP loaded on to a 2 gig hard drive and I only have @ 124 mb of free space left...there obviously is lots of hidden files and folders; how do I get rid of them. I have tried all the disc cleanup and defragment routines with no luck...HELP! -- Not a thought When you saying reloaded, do you mean clean install or repair? Conficker is a new comer which can cause lots of trouble to your machine. Such corrupt file, corrupt boot sectors/clusters..etc. Try to perform a clean install which involves deleting all partitions and creatimng new ones then a complete formate. If the HDD completely damaged and rendered useless by the virus try to contact DELL Help & Support to give you the right Hard drive, make sure to get your machine Number and the hard drive number ready to hand it to give you the right hdd to reinstall the Operating system. Install Windows XP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...p/install.mspx Get secure with up2date antivirus and antimalware softwa install the free trial of Windows Live OneCare http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safe...e/default.mspx Windows Defender detects and removes spyware http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...r/default.mspx http://www.avast.com http://www.bitdefender.co.uk/site/Downloads/ HTH, nass -- http://www.nasstec.co.uk |
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Conficker fried my 'Dell.
"Pacoman" wrote: My daughter loaded that conficker to a XP 'DELL'. I cleaned it out with various removal software and reloaded Windows XP Professional. The problem now is that I 'only' have XP loaded on to a 2 gig hard drive and I only have @ 124 mb of free space left...there obviously is lots of hidden files and folders; how do I get rid of them. I have tried all the disc cleanup and defragment routines with no luck...HELP! -- Not a thought When you saying reloaded, do you mean clean install or repair? Conficker is a new comer which can cause lots of trouble to your machine. Such corrupt file, corrupt boot sectors/clusters..etc. Try to perform a clean install which involves deleting all partitions and creatimng new ones then a complete formate. If the HDD completely damaged and rendered useless by the virus try to contact DELL Help & Support to give you the right Hard drive, make sure to get your machine Number and the hard drive number ready to hand it to give you the right hdd to reinstall the Operating system. Install Windows XP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...p/install.mspx Get secure with up2date antivirus and antimalware softwa install the free trial of Windows Live OneCare http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safe...e/default.mspx Windows Defender detects and removes spyware http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...r/default.mspx http://www.avast.com http://www.bitdefender.co.uk/site/Downloads/ HTH, nass -- http://www.nasstec.co.uk |
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Conficker fried my 'Dell.
Your post is unclear. Further comments inline.
"Pacoman" wrote in message ... My daughter loaded that conficker to a XP 'DELL'. I cleaned it out with various removal software and reloaded Windows XP Professional. If you cleaned it out, why would you "reload" XP? That doesn't make sense. Or did you format the drive and start from scratch because you were unable to remove the worm? What programs did you use to remove the software? Did you perform a Repair Install, Clean Install, or Parallel Install of Windows XP Pro? Or did you use some kind of System Restoration or Recovery routine (either from a disk or your hard drive's hidden partition)? What is your Dell's model and model number? The problem now is that I 'only' have XP loaded on to a 2 gig hard drive Typo? Do you perhaps mean 20 GB hard drive? "Only"? That implies a Clean Install or its equivalent. Hopefully all your important files were backed up before your daughter let the worm do its thing. and I only have @ 124 mb of free space left...there obviously is lots of hidden files and folders; how do I get rid of them. I have tried all the disc cleanup and defragment routines with no luck...HELP! Answer the other questions first because first we need to determine what exactly you have on your hard drive! Regardless, even if your hard drive is 20 GB, you really should purchase a new one; they're fairly inexpensive. |
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Conficker fried my 'Dell.
Your post is unclear. Further comments inline.
"Pacoman" wrote in message ... My daughter loaded that conficker to a XP 'DELL'. I cleaned it out with various removal software and reloaded Windows XP Professional. If you cleaned it out, why would you "reload" XP? That doesn't make sense. Or did you format the drive and start from scratch because you were unable to remove the worm? What programs did you use to remove the software? Did you perform a Repair Install, Clean Install, or Parallel Install of Windows XP Pro? Or did you use some kind of System Restoration or Recovery routine (either from a disk or your hard drive's hidden partition)? What is your Dell's model and model number? The problem now is that I 'only' have XP loaded on to a 2 gig hard drive Typo? Do you perhaps mean 20 GB hard drive? "Only"? That implies a Clean Install or its equivalent. Hopefully all your important files were backed up before your daughter let the worm do its thing. and I only have @ 124 mb of free space left...there obviously is lots of hidden files and folders; how do I get rid of them. I have tried all the disc cleanup and defragment routines with no luck...HELP! Answer the other questions first because first we need to determine what exactly you have on your hard drive! Regardless, even if your hard drive is 20 GB, you really should purchase a new one; they're fairly inexpensive. |
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