{"id":529,"date":"2008-09-03T09:35:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/2008\/09\/03\/5-apps-for-painless-windows-reformats\/"},"modified":"2008-11-14T12:35:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T19:35:53","slug":"5-apps-for-painless-windows-reformats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/03\/5-apps-for-painless-windows-reformats\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Apps For Painless Windows Reformats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Written by Lee Mathews<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thanks to customers who can’t avoid spyware and trojans to save their lives, I’ve gotten pretty quick at backing up, reformatting, and finishing off Windows installs. I’ve got five core tools that I use to get the job done, and here they are. <\/p>\n Copy the USMT folder from the computer’s c:\\windows\\system32\\ and save it to a USB drive. Alternatively, do what the wizard wants you do and create a wizard disk. Run the exe from there both before and after<\/strong> the reformat. It’s critical to use the exact same version of the executable to avoid problems.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n <\/p>\n The tutorial at the WPIW site is excellent, and will guide you through setting up your first Wizard. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n What about you? What apps help you get from a crapped up install back to a nice, clean OS?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Lee Mathews Thanks to customers who can’t avoid spyware and trojans to save their lives, I’ve gotten pretty quick at backing up, reformatting, and finishing off Windows installs. I’ve got five core tools that I use to get the job done, and here they are. DriverMax. After going through the install process, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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