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I'm not very good with computers, but ive had mine for 2 years and its getting slow and i have not had any protection on it in a while. my laptop is a dell inspiron 1501 and i need help. i want to just reset it and start over as if it was brand new in the box. i was told that i just need to put in my operating system disk and it will restart everything. first is this true then, second if i do put it in, what risk do i take and third, what do i need to do after that. please help or point me in the direction i need to go in. thanks chris PS if im in the wrong forum, can someone pm and tell me where to post this and im not good with computer lingo so dumb it down to like a middle school kid haha thanks alot -- Chrisneedshelp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chrisneedshelp's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/171569.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-set...ll/1290552.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Go to Dell site and see support for your model
You will lose everything on the PC "Chrisneedshelp" wrote in message ... I'm not very good with computers, but ive had mine for 2 years and its getting slow and i have not had any protection on it in a while. my laptop is a dell inspiron 1501 and i need help. i want to just reset it and start over as if it was brand new in the box. i was told that i just need to put in my operating system disk and it will restart everything. first is this true then, second if i do put it in, what risk do i take and third, what do i need to do after that. please help or point me in the direction i need to go in. thanks chris PS if im in the wrong forum, can someone pm and tell me where to post this and im not good with computer lingo so dumb it down to like a middle school kid haha thanks alot -- Chrisneedshelp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chrisneedshelp's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/171569.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-set...ll/1290552.htm http://forums.techarena.in |