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The Key is normally on the certificate of authenticity or on the CD or on the CD packaging.
The place you bought it from should have given you some way to reinstall windows.... i believe this is standard practice. I'd give them a bell mate.
Just make sure you are clear about how to reinstall windows or have someone on hand to help before you go ahead. If you format and then find the CD isn't bootable and has to be run from within windows then you'll be a bit buggered!
You should have some sort of CD with Xp on so that you can reinstall when things like this happen. Have a look through whatever came with it. If not then contact the place that sold you the machine and see if they can help out.
Failing that you would have to part with some cash to purchase a...
as the pc is now... put the XP cd in the drive and restart (you need to make sure that the CD or DVD drive is set as a boot device). When the pc starts it will tell you to press a key to boot from CD. Once you do this all you then need to do is follow the on screen prompts i.e. format as NTFS...
Mrs has a 200Gb drive in her pc. Unfortunately due to bios limitations, only 137.4Gb is recognised.
I know this can be solved by installing a card and plugging the drive into that.
My question is... would the drive need reformatting so that all 200Gb would be recognised or will it instantly be...
perhaps not the best solution but WM Player isn't great anyway but why not install winamp and use that as the default player and see what happens? You can always uninstall it....
norton isn't free and it's also crap.
Avast is pretty good for free: http://www.avast.com/i_kat_207.php?lang=ENG
If you want to pay for some software then i'd recomend Panda.
You do realise that having a machine connected to the net without antivirus protection is one of the stupidest things...
I totally agree... sitting that far from a screen takes everything out of the game play.
I've got my xbox hooked up to my 17" TFT running at 1280x1024 now and it's a hell of a lot more fun.
Does anyone know if F.E.A.R will be available on xbox?
I think a normal sound blaster live card picked up cheap from ebay does the job coupled with surround sound with built in amp. Don't think you need to spend the above on a card when you're only going to use it for mp3's.
Up to you though :)
what a sh*te advert.
They showed so little of the car it was untrue.
I said to my Mrs.. look that's the new clio, she looked up and watched and was non the wiser until the very end when they give you a brief shot.
The glimpes they do give aren't even flattering.
only differences were exterior with minor interior differences IIRC
rear lights
boot strip
wing mirrors
front grill
different coloured dialls
not sure what else.
Pretty sure i saw you yesterday coming along weston road at about 4pm and i think you were on a mobile :eek:
Car looked very nice which is why i saw it coming :)
i saw a black valver in stafford a while back... may have been you. Had 2 guys in and was going past the retail park with matalan on... was behind me in fact (blue megane coupe)
Also... i used to have a black valver :)
I work on the technology park right next door. Haven't seen any clio's in stafford for a fair while. I used to go staffs uni as well about 3 years ago.
no pic, my 1st car was a bog standard mk1 1.2 with a sunroof and 5 spoke alloys. We all have different tastes.... tastes that change and develop with age. To be blunt... you will get stick driving that.