> Trent SCwrote:
A colleague borrowed my laptop last week and kindly infected it with
a virus
> (pauses to send him another email of abuse). I've managed to clean
the
> machine of the virus and its various files, but the after-effects
are
> causing a degree of instability and poor performance: the machine
boots up
> more slowly and displays occasional odd behaviour.
>
> My thinking is that a repair/reinstall might be a smart idea, but I
have one
> question regarding the networking settings. I'm no expert on
networking,
> and persuaded a colleague to set up the networking between the
laptop,
> desktop and router. Since I have no desire to become conversant
with
> networking, I'd like some reassurance that a repair/reinstall will
not have
> an effect on the existing network settings. Or am I going to have
to buy my
> friend another dinner to thank him for re-networking the thing?
>
> TIA

The easiest thing to do is use your system restore and go to the point
just before you loaned it out. That's why it's there.

Incidentally, a repair install will revert your OS to what the disk
is. Meaning, if you have SP/2 installed on an SP/1 system, Windows
will revert back to SP/1 and you have to start all over. Same thing
with any and all Windows updates.

Now, if you installed anything after all the updates, chances are that
will either be gone, or won't run. Repair install, is not all it's
cracked up to be.

Cheers