Hi Deney,

OK first do you have a retail copy of vista or an OEM copy? (Retail is one you buy separately from a shop. OEM comes with your PC)

if you have a retail copy its essential you back up your drivers first onto a memory stick / cd /dvd.... whatever. The last thing you wanna be doing is chasing drivers around the interweb for hours. An OEM disc should have all the drivers on it and install them along with Vista but i'd back up anyway just in case.

second. you have to boot from the Vista disc. When doing this it will give you the option to format your current HDD (delete the partition ). This will wipe EVERYTHING and do a complete clean install of vista erasing the old version. Make sure everything you want to keep (photos, music etc...) is backed up again onto a pen drive or something.

Double Driver is a great tool for backing up drivers. (make sure you back up to some removable media and not the HDD because its going to get formatted!)

Post back when your done to let us know how it went :)

Thanks

Jack

my girlfriends computer has picked up pc defender spyware.i warned her about this and she still clicked on it.ive been told a clean install could sort this problem(screeching sounding warning pop up).i had to do a clean install for her once because of a forgotten password at the beggining of vista.i did this ok but didnt think till i done it that i never saved any internet settings,but hey presto it all worked ok.if i was to perform a clean install again do i need to save anything like that?she is on sky broadband(sagem router)or should it be same as 1st time i performed a clean install.does the router hold all the info it needs or is there a file with the info on it?
any help would be greatly apreciated thanx