Emergency help needed for C90s

Okay, so for some reason today, I got the bright idea to start messing around with services in windows vista. Now my computer runs like crap. Movie playback is full of stutter, games are unplayable, my desktop takes frickin 5 minutes to load all the images and actually get useable from startup. I have startup on normal mode so all processes are now running on startup and it fixed nothing.

It took a lot of workarounds to remove and reinstall video drivers and I have 167.43 installed. GPU-Z recognizes them as such. Windows in general is slow, and I am on high eprformance setting, not battery power settings. I need help like now as to what I can do to avoid having to reinstall. Oh and system restore was turned off at the time due to me liking the extra couple gigs it provided of disk space.

 

not much left to except, think of what u changed, better idea would be os reinstall.

 

Or try system restore.

 

Nope, no system restore points to use. Does windows perhaps have like a repair option on a disc or some repair utility I can use without having to do a total reinstall?

Or would installing SP1 possibly somehow overwrite what caused me to mess up and possibly fix the problem?

 

Only one way to find out :/

This is also why its a great idea if you didnt already have it so, to set up partitions. OS one one partition and all your media on another, so a format only wipes our the OS and very little of your own personal stuff.

In a worst case scenario you have to reinstall some games and a few programs, nothing big.

 

System repair only fix the boot problem I think, you can try SP1.

I screw up my system once by playing with the service too and end up some Windows Vista feature won't work anymore.

 

I think the only choice is reinstall. I don't think Windows Vista has a repair function.

 

Yeah. Some suggestions for the future:

a) Don't turn off System Restore. Instead, limit the amount of HDD it takes. See my Vista guide for how to do that. Always make a restore point once Windows installation and customization is complete.
b) Keep a backup of the Windows install, once you've customized and tweaked it and you're satisfied with how it runs.
c) If you don't use two partitions, like Vicious mentions, do use them.

 

Well the problem got fixed somewhat by switching to service pack 1. But there's still heavy stuttering in video and sound quality is terrible. I'm going to try until friday to fix it but if it is still messed up then I will reinstall over the weekend. Does anyone know of a registry item or serivce that might be causing this?

 

Try SP1

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Ran windows updater after sp1 and downloaded and installed everything for windows, definitely getting back there. Ran 3dmark05 with no overclocking on processor or video card and managed a 6800. A few hundred lower than I usually score but it's a step in the right direction. playing around with my sound options appears to have fixed most of the sound problem but it wants to pop up for a minute every now and then. So I'll still probably reinstall soon but I do consider it to be in useable condition for the time being. I'll limp along with it until I have a few days to do a complete reinstall of windows, and a complete teardown of my C90 and clean out the insides.