Reinstall Problems...

[Ragga]

My computer picked up a nasty virus last week... rendered the whole thing useless. Considering I did not have a good restore point, I decided to reinstall Vista 64.

The reinstall went perfectly fine, but now - after installing and updating all the drivers and windows updates, it is running like absolute crap!

I never had problem with Vista 64 (so plz dont resort for me to get a new OS - infact this was my 1st reinstall in over 2 years!!!). My computer, up until being infected last week was perfect!

Here are my specs:

E8400
EVGA 780i
EVGA Gtx 260
8g Ram
Vista Home Premium 64bit


I have no clue what could be the problem. I am at the point where I would like to delet my old.windows files, but I have not reached stability yet. All of my pictures and music was saved to an external HD so I really dont care about saving anything... and now am wondering how can I completely reinstall vista so that it runs properly?

Here are some of the problems that I am having:

- Glitchy games
- When I select IE it takes forever to start up (but once it is up and running, it is usually ok)
- I get NonResponsive often when just selecting things on windows (for example, my computer, control panel, pictures, etc)
- very slow start up
- very slow everything!!!

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

[GasMask]

Vista is like old now bro .....

[Ragga]

LOL... exactly what i didnt want responded!

anyways... i dont feel like fork'n out any more money - if i do it will be for a cheap gtx260 for sli considering i have a 28inch.

but honestly, never had any problems with vista for over 2 years... just want to know what i could do... to restore vista to the very beginning... maybe w/o old.windows files...

can u completely wipe your computer???

[29 days later]

LOL... exactly what i didnt want responded!

anyways... i dont feel like fork'n out any more money - if i do it will be for a cheap gtx260 for sli considering i have a 28inch.

but honestly, never had any problems with vista for over 2 years... just want to know what i could do... to restore vista to the very beginning... maybe w/o old.windows files...

can u completely wipe your computer???

Do you have the Vista disc? If you do you can do everything you want from that - reformat, repair and reinstall. If you don't have the disc you will need to get a hold of one, you should be able to use any old disc just so long as you know your licence key.