computer question

[thorne]

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?

 

Socket: 775

Supports the following processors:

Pentium D 900 series

Pentium 4 601 series

Celeron D 3xx series

 

2gb ram max

 

 

No core 2 duo or core duo support but you can get a pentium D cheap.

[street pilot]

Yeah, I don't know how to do that. Although I agree with you on the fact that this and my old computer have a bunch of bullshit that I have and will never use. It sucks.

 

Its easy. First and foremost save all your documents, pics, etc. to a flash drive or external hard drive, someone else's PC, whatever.

 

Then put your Vista Operating system disc in the DVD-ROM.

 

Restart the PC, most likely you will see something to the effect of "press any key to boot from CD-ROM."

 

Press the any key.

 

Vista will give you two options, repair or install.

 

Do a clean install.

 

Only the Vista OS will be installed, no dell trial period spam.

 

Vista will re-name the old install as windows.old. You can delete this after you confirm all is well.

 

Again, get everything important off the PC first. You may even choose to use "Windows Easy Transfer" to migrate your stuff somewhere else. Make sure you use the Vista disc that came with your PC, not the Dell recovery disc. Since this is your first go at it, I would recommend you have another PC lined up to browse the web with in case you get stuck or need to DL drivers or something.