There will beĪ message as to which Function key to press on the screen when you first start your computer. The factory restore process is normally invoked by pressing a Function key (like F11) at computer startup. Most laptops and many OEM (HP, Sony, etc.) desktop computers come with a factory restore image on a special partition on the hard drive. Naturally that copy of Windows XP cannot be installed on any otherĬomputer. If you don't have one, you will need to use a retail copy of Windows and the Product Key that came with it.
#Windows xp icons install#
You must install with a generic OEM disc that matches the same version of Windows. Note that if you have a generic/home-built computer in order to use the Product Key from the COA sticker on the machine Since in all the long post you forgot to tell us what kind of computer you have, here are general instructions.
#Windows xp icons full#
I will assume that you are trying to follow best practice with a used computer and to do a full clean install/factory restore of Windows but that you are using It is a bit unclear to me exactly what you are trying to do as I find your post a bit confusing. if i havent explained something fully enough please reply. Thanks to you all in advance any help or advice is much appreciate. I dont mind also losing my xp product key, have a spare i can use. im hoping someone has an idea of what to do. and i cant get back into safe mode due to actiavation issues.
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Needs to be activated blah blah blah" clicked ok and now it gets stuck at this point. decided to go into safe and went all ok, and looked fine, desktop icons and start menu existed. Going to change this later if possible)) the Repair then went ok until the "please wait." this went for half an hour so i rebooted. i have then had to use my own product key to continue (original wouldnt work as OEM edition(was managed to delete "oem16.inf" in shift f10 and continued installing. but as installing devices it would crash and reboot, several times. Next thoughts were to repair windows with an xp disc i own (took note of old product key before hand) as i booted after the delete it booted fine and would load into the desktop background with no icons. so this was deleted from spybot should have done more research before hand. Past) this showed a virus attached to the csrss.exe. AVG had no luck with this either so i turned to spybot (havent had a problem in the i tried to use stinger to try and get rid of some.
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Someone i know has given me a computer (SP3) with a massive amount of trojans and viruses. appologies as this will be a long post as i am going to try to explain whats gone on with XP.