Pow, Ade thanks :)

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/microsoft-windows-7-home-premium-03612469-pdt.html

That what i need then??


This is UBER scary to someone who doesn't know much on PCs :lol:

I could help too if you want. I have fixed/installed tons of PCs.

Tesco would probably be quite cheap, not sure exactly sorry.

Mouse should be fine, might not kick in straight away however.

Jambo, I'm happy to help for a few beers as I am fairly local :)

Wiping and Windows 7 is the way foeward!

Yeah I would remove the HDD, mouse is USB tho (wireless) problem?

Now to purchase windows7, best place??

Dont have any USB devices plugged in when you are doing it though, can confuse it sometimes.

Yeah you sound good to go then James, just get the Windows 7 disk in and boot from it at start up. You can then quick format the hard disk by following the prompts.

Then just install and as John said click next a few times, set the date and time if its not done, set it to GMT, give the computer a name...done :thumbs:

By everything backed up do you mean personal data files? I have that done already to a USB mounted external HDD. The rest of the data I couldn't give a toss about tbh

Not difficult at all, hardest part is making sure you've got everything backed up.

It's pressing next a few times otherwise.

Yeah I want to wipe and start again if that's possible not just lay a new skin on an existing problem. So is that difficult then??

That would defeat the purpose.

Simple upgrade if you have Vista already. Unlike with Xp. :)

If your putting 7 on its a piece of piss

That's what I was thinking John but I didn't want to sound drastic. I know nothing of computers you see.

Windows 7 it is, my iTunes and pictures are all backed up on my externally HDD, therefore there is little if anything I need/want off there.

How easy for a novice is it to wipe/reinstall windows is it?

Wiping definitely sounds advisable, upgrade to windows 7 would be a good reason to do it.

Even if it was working ok 3 years is a long time without a wipe.

Oh and Dell tower 4gb ram loads of memory left on it defraggrd recently. Running vista 32 premium

Pc is 3years old and is aparently fucked.

Has had various issues since day1 and now it's the final straw. The other night it took 45mins to switch off :| (that's not an exaggeration)

Now I can't start it up without it failing and doing a system restore. The only thing I have installed recently was ie9 and adobe flash 10 so deleted these used Ccleaner about 10times uninstalled flash and IE now it seemed to switch on/off ok.

Downloaded flash again and once again machine did system restore on startup?!



So am I just "not allowed" flash anymore?!?


I am thinking of upgrading to windows 7 and wiping everything on my pc to start again.

Advisable?!