SIUE ITS

Today we continued work on the three dell machines from last week, again from last week we have a laptop that needed to be clean up and updated. Second was a regular tower that the user had forgotten her password and had viruses on and finally third another tower that the Windows/system32/config file had been corrupted on.

The laptop was fairly simple, we physically cleaned the machine and then ran updated malware and anti-virus software on it, afterward we installed office 2007 for the user and it was good to go.

The second machine we used a UNIX program to rewrite the password for windows xp and got through that, we updated the anti-virus software and cleaned it off, we also updated the drivers on the system for the user.

The third machine was a little more difficult, I tried the repair the system32/config file through the recovery console using the windows xp professional install disc but it wouldn't take. We ended up copying the files off to another hard drive and reinstalled windows on the machine and copied the users files back over.

SIUE ITS

Quick day today, we got three dell machines to work on first a laptop that needed to be clean up and updated. Second was a regular tower that the user had forgotten her password and had viruses on and finally third another tower that the Windows/system32/config file had been corrupted on.

Didn't get the machines till late but was able to start virus scans on the the laptop and the first tower and will finish these up when I'm back in next week if they aren't fixed by any of the other interns by then.