13-11-2010, 08:16 PM
Quote:You have archive all your stuff. You then have to reinstall all of your software. You lose all your settings and everything is out of place. Oh yeah, drivers, activation, require the internet and if you didn't preload the drivers, sometimes windows won't let you back in after reboot. Irritating.
I'd have to go through the process of backing up stuff, (probably containing viruses). They also had some ancient software and print drivers on there as well as 3 user accounts that'll all have their own set up, i'm sure they've customised. When it's someone else's it's way too much trouble getting it back to how it was and usually takes longer than a loads of scans and tweaking.
If it was my own box though, i'd of started fresh.