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dell desktop was gave to me but cant get past welcome center?

it is an 04 model desktop dell with windows XP I can get past welcome center but only for a split second before it will go right back to welcome center I would like to restore it back to an earlier date or I also have reboot disk

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I would go the system recovery route. Place your disk in your optical drive and reboot (restart) the computer. Follow the prompts and you should have a "new" computer.

    You may have to go in to the BIOS (setup) to make sure that your optical drive is first in the boot order.

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