jbirdie1
07-29-2007, 10:43 AM
a friend called and told me a friend of his had over 190 occurances of virus and malware infestations. i was asked to do some backups, then format and reinstall win xp and install the appropriate protection, so we dont do this again. however ... he asked us to take the machine away from his house to do this ( he's a pro fisherman and has a charter that day we're gonna work on it). now finally, the question...part of the xp install is to set up "networking", now if we do this at a site other than where its gonna be installed, is that gonna present a prob. like when we take it back it wont work? or when we take it back it will reconfigure the network, again, for the 'new site... finally do i just need to do the format and install offline, then return to the owner and we can run the network wizard in the control panel. sorry to be so wordy here but wanted to make sure the prob was understood. any help is appreciated, aloha