Best Answer bbernadettee , 05 October 2014 - 11:50 AM
I figured it out! I formatted and did a clean install
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Windows Reinstall help Please!
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bbernadettee
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windows reinstall harddrive walkthrough
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 10:09 AM
Greetings!
Recently someone used my computer and ended up installing some adware/malware nonsense. Upsetting? YES! But I did what I usually do once in awhile and attempted to reinstall Windows 7. I succeeded. Sort of. I don't think I totally formatted the hard drive right. I got to a point where it told me all my old data will be saved in a windows.old folder. I don't want ANYTHING saved anymore. I want a totally fresh machine. My c: drive is even showing there's still stuff on there. I'm able to use everything normally again but I'm now noticing spikes in my CPU usage also and I feel like there's still some malicious stuff running in the background..
I'm hoping someone can walk me through completely reinstalling Windows and properly formatting. I have my systems disks so it shouldn't be that hard 
Thank you so much for your time!
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I figured it out! I formatted and did a clean install
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