Perlzawizdumb
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Ok..guys..been around the block and have to get off the fence...help. I have windows xp home upgrade from winMe. Not a puter whiz by any means. I just stuck the legal upgrad in and followed the installation through to finish. I am not sure when or where along the way i lost the ability to defrag. The window is there and available. I push the button and it is unresponsive. I surf around in my puter trying to figure this out. Somewhere i learn that my puter does not have a defrag tool installed??? People have suggested I do system restore. I go the pathway to get there and guess what? The system restore tab is not even there. It is simply missing. All the other tabs that are supposed to be there ARE place...just this one is missing. People have told me to type msconfig into the run box...and I get.."windows cannot find...." Same thing happens when i typed in gpedit.msc. Since i don't seem to be able to fix this problem and it bugs me so...i would like to back up everything and "format" or "reformat" (whichever is the correct term) everything onto NTFS moving from FAT32. If however i do this will an xp home UPGRADE have everythin i need to start over again. I don't know how all this works. I am assuming the when I installed xp home UPGRADE that it installed over WinMe and used it as a "filler" for what the UPGRADE version doesn't include???? I don't know. I am afraid that if i wipe the partition clean and reinstall just xp home UPGRADE on a new partition that some of the things frome WinMe will disappear and the new xp home UPGRADE will not function because it needs the support of WinMe...PLEASE ADVISE...I'M USELESS WITH THIS STUFF...thanx.