. . . but one I can’t find a satisfactory answer to. Plenty of advice on offer, but none of it goes through the procedure step by step, all respondents assuming the poor sods experiencing the problems that caused them to decide to do a reinstall know what to do already, in some respects.
In my wife’s case, her heavy-duty graphics apps, such as Corel’s Painter, having slowed quite a bit, I wished to begin her setup from scratch. Now having tried to reinstall from the Win XP CD, however,I found the procedural windows far from intuitive.
I am not a computer novice (I have my own three computers running Win7, an op. system my wife does not want), but please treat me as one on this question, if you are able to help. May the gods smile on you if you are able to sort out this question that seemingly baffles many.