Rebooting the entire computer

[Jam]

I'm sick of this piece of **** coming up with 'X is not working' 'X is not responding' and this is before its even loaded up. Plus I was pissing about on this and thats when wireless went so it might fix that.

How do I go about rebooting it, its a Sony VAIO FZ38M, which makes no difference... on Vista SP1.

Thanks, James.

[Flisker]

When you say Reboot do you mean like format and install fresh? If so, put the Vista disc in and go through the settings.

[Kieran]

Just do a Google search on how to reformat a computer with Vista.

[Fehm]

Restoring to factory settings?
Its usually tap <F8> before vista loads

Lol, Hope ya sort it out =D

[Robbie]

Do you have a recovery CD or recovery partition?

[William93]

reboot lolol.

Edit by Robbie! (Forum Super Moderator) - Please do not post pointlessly.

[Jahova]

The messages you are receiving could be down to too many services/apps starting at once, making your computer run slow and in turn, causing the app to crash?

[Jam]

Only Steam starts by default along with whatever usually does.

[Jahova]

Try;


Start
Run
Type: msconfig
Go to startup.
Disable all.
Apply, ok.
Restart your PC and see how fast it starts.
Then go back and enable only the few that you want.

That should speed-up your startup. It's a good tool.

[Source]

Nice idea tom... nothing like turning off all the core services that also start during that startup time, such as firewalls, anti-virus' etc...

[Jahova]

The idea is to turn it all off to show how quick start-up could be, and then re-enable the things that you want. I only have four items;


Kaspersky
WLM
Audio driver
Display driver

My PC can start-up in around 1:30 - Which isn't bad.