A colleague borrowed my laptop last week and kindly infected it with a virus
(pauses to send him another email of abuse). I've managed to clean the
machine of the virus and its various files, but the after-effects are
causing a degree of instability and poor performance: the machine boots up
more slowly and displays occasional odd behaviour.

My thinking is that a repair/reinstall might be a smart idea, but I have one
question regarding the networking settings. I'm no expert on networking,
and persuaded a colleague to set up the networking between the laptop,
desktop and router. Since I have no desire to become conversant with
networking, I'd like some reassurance that a repair/reinstall will not have
an effect on the existing network settings. Or am I going to have to buy my
friend another dinner to thank him for re-networking the thing?

TIA

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Trent SC <invalid@bogoff.invalid> replied with a ;-)
> A colleague borrowed my laptop last week and kindly infected it with
> a virus (pauses to send him another email of abuse). I've managed to
> clean the machine of the virus and its various files, but the
> after-effects are causing a degree of instability and poor
> performance: the machine boots up more slowly and displays occasional
> odd behaviour.
> My thinking is that a repair/reinstall might be a smart idea, but I
> have one question regarding the networking settings. I'm no expert
> on networking, and persuaded a colleague to set up the networking
> between the laptop, desktop and router. Since I have no desire to
> become conversant with networking, I'd like some reassurance that a
> repair/reinstall will not have an effect on the existing network
> settings. Or am I going to have to buy my friend another dinner to
> thank him for re-networking the thing?
> TIA

A repair install will leave the setting intact, a reinstall will not.
Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
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If your machine is having a number of issues I would start fresh, so buy
another meal for your friend. You may want to see if he would be willing to
document what he does so you could follow a step-by-step. In reality, the
router setup will not change and your machine is probably already set to
recieve an IP address from the router. So you really should not need to have
your friend do anything, unless you are using a wireless network and have
encryption enabled then you will need the key assigned to your machine
again.

Good luck.

"Michael Stevens" <mstevens@bogusmvps.org> wrote in message
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> In news:%23dAZarRDGHA.740@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
> Trent SC <invalid@bogoff.invalid> replied with a ;-)
>> A colleague borrowed my laptop last week and kindly infected it with
>> a virus (pauses to send him another email of abuse). I've managed to
>> clean the machine of the virus and its various files, but the
>> after-effects are causing a degree of instability and poor
>> performance: the machine boots up more slowly and displays occasional
>> odd behaviour.
>> My thinking is that a repair/reinstall might be a smart idea, but I
>> have one question regarding the networking settings. I'm no expert
>> on networking, and persuaded a colleague to set up the networking
>> between the laptop, desktop and router. Since I have no desire to
>> become conversant with networking, I'd like some reassurance that a
>> repair/reinstall will not have an effect on the existing network
>> settings. Or am I going to have to buy my friend another dinner to
>> thank him for re-networking the thing?
>> TIA
>
> A repair install will leave the setting intact, a reinstall will not.
> Repair Install
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
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>
>
>

> Trent SCwrote:
A colleague borrowed my laptop last week and kindly infected it with
a virus
> (pauses to send him another email of abuse). I've managed to clean
the
> machine of the virus and its various files, but the after-effects
are
> causing a degree of instability and poor performance: the machine
boots up
> more slowly and displays occasional odd behaviour.
>
> My thinking is that a repair/reinstall might be a smart idea, but I
have one
> question regarding the networking settings. I'm no expert on
networking,
> and persuaded a colleague to set up the networking between the
laptop,
> desktop and router. Since I have no desire to become conversant
with
> networking, I'd like some reassurance that a repair/reinstall will
not have
> an effect on the existing network settings. Or am I going to have
to buy my
> friend another dinner to thank him for re-networking the thing?
>
> TIA

The easiest thing to do is use your system restore and go to the point
just before you loaned it out. That's why it's there.

Incidentally, a repair install will revert your OS to what the disk
is. Meaning, if you have SP/2 installed on an SP/1 system, Windows
will revert back to SP/1 and you have to start all over. Same thing
with any and all Windows updates.

Now, if you installed anything after all the updates, chances are that
will either be gone, or won't run. Repair install, is not all it's
cracked up to be.

Cheers

Trent SC wrote:
>
> A colleague borrowed my laptop last week and kindly infected it with a virus
> (pauses to send him another email of abuse). I've managed to clean the
> machine of the virus and its various files, but the after-effects are
> causing a degree of instability and poor performance: the machine boots up
> more slowly and displays occasional odd behaviour.

Tell your friend NOT to install viruses in the future. As even if you
remove a virus, the damage it does may still remain.


> My thinking is that a repair/reinstall might be a smart idea, but I have one
> question regarding the networking settings. I'm no expert on networking,
> and persuaded a colleague to set up the networking between the laptop,
> desktop and router. Since I have no desire to become conversant with
> networking, I'd like some reassurance that a repair/reinstall will not have
> an effect on the existing network settings. Or am I going to have to buy my
> friend another dinner to thank him for re-networking the thing?
>
> TIA

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