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Drivers

  • 16-10-2007 12:09pm
    #1
    neon_glows
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    Hi guys i have an old PC im fixing for a friend, his windows xp has become very buggy indeed and needs a reinstall, its full of spyware to, so heres the question i cant find drivers for it on the net anywhere and theres no pc model number or anything, ripping out each pc of hardware from the box and googling it sounds like a nightmare, is there a possible way of backing up the preinstalled drivers and pasting them ack in at the end of the reinstall????


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  • #2
    unnameduser
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    Go to start run and type msinfo32. This is the system information tool. It will allow you to view the location and name of the drivers.

    Also download belarc advisor. It will give you an audit of the hardware and software on your PC.

    P.S.

    (Have you tried running a few spyware scanners (including hijackthis). I find Avg Antispyware, superantispyware and spybot, quite good. Also try ccleaner to clean up unneeded files and clean the registry. (A chkdsk and defrag may be in order too) If you have an installation CD, stick it in and run sfc /scannow. This will replace any missing system files.

    Alot of the drivers needed will probably be automatically loaded from the driver.cab file.

    Yes, a time comes when a clean install is best, but I'd try these first)


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