Note An antivirus program is designed to help protect your computer from viruses. You must not download or open files from sources that you do not trust, visit Web sites that you do not trust, or open e-mail attachments when your antivirus program is disabled.
For more information about computer viruses, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. After you make sure all prerequisites are met, go to the "Recommended steps before you install Windows XP SP3" section. Perform a full backup of the files that you have on your computer to an external location We recommend that you perform a full backup of the files that you have on your computer to an external location, such as an external hard disk, DVD, CD, USB flash drive, or network folder.
You can use the Backup and Restore Wizard to back up documents, pictures, and other files. For more information, visit the Microsoft Help and Support Center Web site, and see the "Backing up files and folders" section or view the following knowledge base article:. This helps you repair your setup if the installation fails. To create an Automated System Recovery set by using Backup, follow these steps:.
Open Backup. By default, the Backup or Restore Wizard starts, unless it is disabled. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. Important You will need a blank 1. Review your version of Internet Explorer. To determine your browser version, click About Internet Explorer on the Help menu. After you take these recommended steps, go to the "Steps that are required before you install Windows XP SP3" section.
Start your computer, and then log on as an administrator. Note Administrators have complete and unrestricted access to the operating system and to its settings. You can use the Administrator user name to log on, or you can use another account that is a member of the Administrators group.
To determine the groups to which you belong, click Start , click Control Panel , and then click User Accounts. If you need help to verify that you are an administrator on the computer, click the following link to verify your operating environment:. If your computer is running on battery power, plug it in so that your computer does not lose power during the installation.
If your computer has multiple user accounts that can log on to your computer at the same time and you use Fast User Switching, make sure that all other users are logged off before you install Windows XP SP3. For more information about how to obtain Windows XP Service Pack 3, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. This section lists some most common error messages that you may receive when you install Windows XP SP3.
Refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article that is associated with each error message for possible workarounds or resolutions. If you receive an installation error message that is not contained in this article, try the steps that are listed in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:. If you receive error messages during the installation of Windows XP SP3, use the information in this section to troubleshoot the installation.
This section is intended for beginning to intermediate users. If you are not comfortable with troubleshooting steps, you may want to ask a friend for help. Setup has detected that another update is in progress.
Please complete that installation or removal and try again. Please complete that installation or removal and try again". For more detailed information, go to the Shared Access page on the Microsoft Web site. Before you can continue, you must Uninstall KB Setup cannot continue because one or more prerequisites required to install Service Pack 3 failed. If these troubleshooting steps did not resolve the issue, go to the "Next Steps" section for information about how to contact Support.
This will install Windows as before, apart from the existing assembly you are currently having a headache with. You can use this link above to find out how we can perform a repair installation of Windows XP with us.
Each page contains screenshots and details to see your business grow with a customization wizard. While a repaired installation is designed to preserve most of your data and programs, we strongly recommend that you do your best before restoring an installation.
If something goes wrong during the reinstallation, the data loss can be dealt with. Better to be convinced than sorry! The fastest strategy to back up all of your valuable data is to use a local backup program.
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How do I reinstall Windows XP? Place the original disc in this disc tray. Start your computer. From the main installation screen, press Enter to access the recovery installation. Another option is to back up all of your valuable files online using an online copy service. Ultimately, web backups may be more beneficial than local backups your files are stored and accessed remotely from any computer with an Internet connection , but when someone wants to fix Windows XP before you know it, you choose local backup simply because online backup is a very long process downloading a large number of files usually takes a long time.
If something goes wrong during the restore process and your personal folders disappear, no matter which method you choose to back up this data, you can restore Record some or all of the data you used. For example, if you used Backup comodo to back up data to an external hard drive, you can reopen this program and use the restore function to restore your data. Ditto for cloud backup services requires Backblaze Crashplan or.
The above 12 disks are what I have for the reinstallation and some are either duplicates or updates. I do not want to install the McAfee antivirus and I am not sure whether it will be automatically installed or whether it is an option. I would like to reinstall MSE. I may need to install the McAfe and then uninstall. If i have to install Mcafee then the add remove programs failed to uninstall all of the antivirus software and I will then need to run the special removal tool again.
Is this something I can download now onto the external hard drive and use when needed or must I have a downloaded browser and an internet connection to get and properly use this antivirus software removal tool. Bear indicated that with the combined issues that i am having that I have malware. This is in spite of the numerous malware scans whether norton, trend micro, hijackthis, kapersky etc.
There was a period of time in which i did not actively update the antivirus definitions and this convinced him that this must be a malware problem. So it seems sensible to replace the operating system and just make sure all the bases are covered. At the same time I would like to understand if there is a way to determine if corrupted files are the problems and if there is no detected malware by numerous scans whether corrupted files can be fixed.
That is does windows xp give you the option to run a repair with either the reinstallation disk or a brand new installation disk? If you have no detected malware and then perform a repair and the system appears to work normally again is the problem that the malware still has altered the registry and this is missed by the repair tool? So it is essentially an incomplete repair? Is that the reason for always doing a complete reinstall or is it something else?
Based on what I know as of this moment I would make these steps and i bet there are lots of errors. But here goes anyway. Please correct me anywhere I get the steps out of order, make a mistake or miss a step. Currently I am backing up my documents and desktop but I will need to learn how to backup files of contacts within microsoft outlook, aol etc. This has already been done with MS and malwarebytes.
These are potentially malware contaminated files but since they are not the operating system files and since they passed the malware scans they are safe to reinstall? Will one of the windows updates convert xp sp2 into xp sp3? Will there be numerous reboots with numerous updates. This is likely to take one or more hours? When I was having the problems I checked the hardware on my computer by booting and pressing the f12 key.
This opened dell diagnostics and all of the hardware passed. It skipped one step and that was flashing the bios. I have a dead battery and it indicated that it only can flash the bios with battery power. If flashing a bios is a part of the windows installation process then It would fail at that point as I will only have electrical power.
I hope that this is not a part of the reinstall process. If it is then I would need to get a battery before I replace the operating system. I have not set up microsoft outlook since 5 years ago and no longer remember how to do that.
But I anticipate I will need to get isp codes or use smtp or something like that? I'll have to google search for the aol configuration too. Using wifi and speed test. How do I download now and them get them to the proper place on my internal drive after the operating system installation. Is it somehow a simple copy and paste somewhere or does the operating system look and find it on the external hard drive to place the files in the right place?
The download options are run, save and cancel. If i click on save now can it go to the extrnal hard drive for use later? I am guessing that this is a lot diffrent than the word, excel, powerpoint, adobe files etc which is a copy and paste to my documents? And the same for the drivers, the updated drivers could be downloaded somehow to the external drive and then somehow go to the right place after operating system installation? How do i find each driver that is old to make sure it seeks a new driver that is on the external drive?
Where are all the drivers populated to go through the process? Do I somehow skip this step by not installing the drivers on the dll cd and somehow install drivers from the external drive the first time. How do I do this? I use windows xp sp3 and I have a disk from dell that is a reinstallation cd Microsoft windows xp home edition service pack 2: Also I have microsoft office and if I have any problems with it I reinsert the cd and it enables repairs. This thread is locked.
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