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Having read the previous topic I got me thinking. A couple of months a go I was called to fix a laptop that was running achingly slow. After throwing every incantation in the book at it 6 hours had past it was midnight and I had to go home with the job half done.
now the thing is as I was scanning and defragging and whatever else needed doing I couldn’t help think that I may be I wasn’t going about it the best way, maybe if I did things in a different order (and used something else besides spybot) I would of been home sooner.
so how about a sister article to go with dealing with new Pc`s rubbish as well
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| Easy Format HDD and do full re-install  Please Simon, can I have my cheque in the post?
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I'm with Bob on this one.
If everything looks ok from a devices/drivers point of view and you can't sort it after 30-40 minutes of scanning/fiddling about then call it a day - it's quicker (and therefore cheaper for the customer) to start from scratch.
Ask them if there's any data they need to keep (and if possible back it up, which they should have done already but probably haven't), take the laptop home with you (you can then have your tea/watch neighbours/talk to the missus while you.....), reinstall their OS & apps and restore their data.
Afterwards give them the green-cross-code schpeel about having and maintaining antivirus/spyware/firewall s/ware and prepare to revisit them in 6mnths to 1yr for exactly the same thing. 
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| Ah your both assuming that they have a windows disk. I often get a blank exprestion when i ask for it but yep your right i should of thought of that.
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Going to add/remove programs in the control panel is a better option. Then run a reg cleaner.
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Backup all personal data, pop in a Linux Mint live cd and reboot, install, and 45min later MAX, job done. (seriously) 
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| I'm sure this is all good advice, I'd like to know morre about 900i's suggestion re using a Mint/Linux CD to do this - it's not the first time it has been suggested. I'm sure this would make a good article in MM - which would also be very useful to all builders. Many probably know all about this but there are many out here (inc myself) who would have no idea what to do - apart from Fdisk/format.
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I think that 900i was actually suggesting that to remove all the "crap" on an old PC, replace Windows in its entirety with a version of Linux.
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