Words from Nerds #61: Reinstall Your OS
Monday, April 26, 2010
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Have you ever needed to reinstall your computer from scratch? Either because it failed, because of a virus or just because? We’ll walk you through how to do it and give you some tips.
Nerd News
- Gone in a Blippy: Credit card info comprised in a social networking site
- BlackBerry 6.0 on the horizon
- Printing from wherever you are? HP thinks so.
- The $100 bill gets a high-tech makeover.
Feature Story: Reinstalling Your O/S
- how do you do it?
- OEM CD vs Retail
- the hassle of drivers
- when to restore your data
- what are you recovering from (if virus, steps to prevent from putting it back on when restoring data)
- software keys for purchased apps
Nerd History
- April 26, 1900 – Charles Richter, American geophysicist & seismologist
- April 26, 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union, creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
