James -

My solution avoids jumping through any hoops, takes less than 1/2 hour for
installation, is free along with thousands of apps, and is almost impervious
to future malware infections:  http://www.ubuntu.com/  You knew that was
coming right?! ;)

- Pete


On 7/31/07, James B. Byrne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I a rebuilding a friends Dell D800 Latitude (Windows XP-Pro SP2) that was
> so badly compromised with malware that it was impossible to use.  However,
> the recovery disk set that Dell sent him was for a D600 and the driver
> suite provided does not work with this machine.  I have worked around this
> (mostly) but the drivers for the smartcard bus that I most recently
> installed cause the machine to become non-responsive a few minutes after
> starting. This happens too fast for me to get the the restore point dialog
> so I am lookgn to see if there is a technique to rollback to a restore
> point through the command line recover console.
>
> Does anyone here know if this is  possible and if so, how to do it?
>
> Regards,
>
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