learninmypc
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I need to know if there is a free & easy to use program I can put on a USB to save ALL passwords on a friends pc so I can do a factory reset on it? He has a Vista Home Premium, TIA
7 years old. I'm not going to be able to reinstall the OS like I had planned on, I'm now simply trying to figure out why it was crashing so often on him. I've had it for 7 plus hours & no crashes.I'm thinking that you are about to take the computer back to how it was many years ago (possibly to 2007) and that if it's working OK it's an unnecessary risk. Check how old the hard disk is and whether it is almost filled up which would slow it down considerably. I don't think Vista had an auto defrag so that may need doing. I have cloned my best XP desktop to a newer high capacity hard drive. No way would I want to reset it to how it was in 2002. Whether you should do it or not I don't know but I'd give it some thought first.