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Originally Posted by hoagiedriver
If you have a working network card after reinstalling, it goes pretty smothly.
Once it is installed, go to 'windows update' and do all the updates. Skip ahead to the service pack 2 update if you can, that will save some time.
Update -> reboot -> update -> repeat until it says you are all updated.
Then you might want to go to the websites of various devices you have, and get the latest drivers from them (video card, sound card, etc). There are cases where an older driver is sometimes better, but usually that isn't the case.
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Yeah, the updates are pretty simple. I had to format and re-install Windows two weeks ago, it took about three hours before I was back up to snuff. The installation process is easy; just follow the dialogues and you can't go wrong, they don't throw any jargon at you.
After all Windows Updates are installed I go to get the manufacturer's drivers for my devices. WU provides some odd hardware upgrades, like a 3-year-old driver for my Radeon 9600 and a sound driver which disables 5.1 surround.