Having a virus in your windows 7 pc is one of the things that you may find hard to deal with and normally make full computer/pc format-well if done carefully you can save all your data by just few simple and easy precautions.
In this post we will talk about how to get your windows 7 OS ready to deal with any type of rootkit infection or for that matter any deep seated virus infection in your pc that might even disable your antivrus to take control of your computer.
So without any further ado lets begin:-
First of all we need to make a back up so that you don’t lose any data while you kick that virus out of your pc
Go to run menu(by pressing start+r)
Type msconfig in it and hit enter
Now click on the Tools tab and come to the last option i.e system restore and launch it
Now click on the create a nrew restore point radio button and hit next
Give todays date to it and hit next and then on the next page click home followed by cancel.
Now again a very good precaution-Backup our registry
Go to run type regedit
From the menu tb above click file and select export
Enter todays date in the box and choose a external hard drive or a disc-although a virus amy infect this drive as well but we will talk about it in the next tutorial.
Lets now save preserve our critical data-such as your family pictures,your favoutrite videos etc
Go to my computer
Open your c:/ drive and go to users
Save all the file that you want to preserve while your pc is under a virus attack
You could also save file from any other folder as well
But remember to save all of them in a external drive and check the space that your documents require in order to be stored in your external drive
Now your windows 7 pc is ready to face any kind of virus infection
This is a windows 7 virus removal series so you may like to go ahead and read-Remove virus from windows 7-Softwares that you will Need
