Thanks for the help! That solved my problem. I am now reinstalling some of my programs and mourning the loss of some that I cannot replace. Oh well, such is life. Oh, and the wife pointed out the product key on the side of the tower after I asked for it in my last post. I felt like such a fool since I was sitting right next to it. Thanks again for all the help!
I recently acquired a nasty virus or trojan that corrupted my system. I decided that the best way to deal with it would be to reinstall the operating system. Unfortunately I did not check here first for the best way to do this, therefore I missed the system restore option. I used the reinstallation disc and several hours later I was finished. I then found out that everything that was on my computer previously was still there, just under the new operating system. I could even access much of it by going into the C drive. I imagine that the virus/trojan is still there, somewhere in the 50 GB of information still on my hard drive.   My question is, what would be the best way to restore my computer to the factory settings or as close as possible. I have tried the control + F11 on the Dell splash screen and it refuses to come up with the restore tool. Should I delete the whole hard drive and start from scratch? If so, how would I go about doing that? A walk through would be most appreciated. Thank you.   Dimension B110 Celeron CPU 2.53 GHz 1 GB RAM
Windows XP reinstallation question