User blog comment:BobTheDoctor27/Urgent Inactivity News/@comment-1233616-20121125133800

My advice is doing the same I did with my computer: copy all the important files (word documents, mp3s, etc.) into an external HDD or into another computer. DON'T copy the programs, as it is a waste of time since they will need to be reinstalled for registry reasons. Once you've done this, format the HDD of the laptop. After that, reinstall all the programs you want and copy the files you had saved in the external HDD/computer into your formated laptop.