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thaiboxer04 · 12-10-2008, 07:09 AM

I am hoping someone can help me. I bought a used sony vaio laptop yesterday, its between 2-3 years old and running windows xp. The first problem is that the computer is full of useless programs, old malware removers, messengers etc. It is so bad that Id like to have the coomputer like new again... like a clean install. The problem is I don't have a recovery disk or any software for it. All I have access to is the recovery disks for winxp for my dell desktop which probably won't work and has none of the drivers for my laptop. Is there anyway to do this without the disks? The second problem is the built in wireless. I can't connect to my linksys cisco router. My compaq laptop is newer and has no problem with it. The vaio finds it in the "view available wireless" but when you try to connect it says not found. I think the vaios network settings are all messed up and need reset. Can anyone help please?

12-10-2008, 07:09 AM	#1 (permalink)
thaiboxer04 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 3 OS: winxp	please help with laptop! I am hoping someone can help me. I bought a used sony vaio laptop yesterday, its between 2-3 years old and running windows xp. The first problem is that the computer is full of useless programs, old malware removers, messengers etc. It is so bad that Id like to have the coomputer like new again... like a clean install. The problem is I don't have a recovery disk or any software for it. All I have access to is the recovery disks for winxp for my dell desktop which probably won't work and has none of the drivers for my laptop. Is there anyway to do this without the disks? The second problem is the built in wireless. I can't connect to my linksys cisco router. My compaq laptop is newer and has no problem with it. The vaio finds it in the "view available wireless" but when you try to connect it says not found. I think the vaios network settings are all messed up and need reset. Can anyone help please?