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re: Cleaning Dell Notebook
Friday, May 4, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(574 messages posted)
You must retrieve your Product Key (serial number) before using the Restore CD which
the laptop's manufacturer supplied.
You will find it (a 20 digit combination of letters and numbers) at:
START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM
Alternatively, you can retrieve it from a DOS prompt by creating a batch file as
follows-
Set DOSpath=%PATH%
PATH=%DOSpath%;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
FIND "ProductKey" C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT > C:\Product.txt
This will save the details in your C: root directory in a file called PRODUCT.TXT
Ed
On Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 11:46 am, Amanda wrote:
>I recently purchased an older Dell Inspiron 2100 notebook (older, but cheap) and
>want to completely (but safely) wipe the hard drive and re-install WindowsME. Is
>there not a prompt that can be entered in Start>Run to completely wipe the hard
drive?
>(Something similar to Start>Run>msconfig)
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- Cleaning Dell Notebook (Amanda: Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 11:46 am)
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