On one system I am running XP Pro 32bit SP3, on another XP Pro 64 SP2. BOTH systems need a cleanup, and I wish to re-install the OS. RECOVERY CONSOLE WILL NOT DO THE JOB. It only goes back 35 days at this point, and if I wanted to use a restore point, it would need to be like 180 days old to get past some stuff I really don't want. SsseeEEEWwwww.....how do you make XP spit out a copy of the raw, factory default OS??1 person needs an answerI do too

On one system I am running XP Pro 32bit SP3, on another XP Pro 64 SP2. BOTH systems need a cleanup, and I wish to re-install the OS. RECOVERY CONSOLE WILL NOT DO THE JOB. It only goes back 35 days at this point, and if I wanted to use a restore point, it would need to be like 180 days old to get past some stuff I really don't want.You probably mean System Restore, not the Recovery Console. It rarely is a good idea to use System Restore to go back more than about a week ... which is why one should usually adjust the space used by System Restore to about 1 GB instead of the default 12% of the partition.The Recovery Console is something else entirely. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058 The Recovery Console will not reinstall the operating system.SsseeEEEWwwww.....how do you make XP spit out a copy of the raw, factory default OS??You don't.What Microsoft requires from companies that sell computers with Windows pre-installed is that the end user be given "some method" of reinstalling the operating system. For small companies ("system builders"), Microsoft requires that a hologrammed Windows CD be provided with the system. Such system builders canalso provide a hard drive-based recovery method (i.e., hidden partition), but can not relysolely on this method.Microsoft permits the larger, so-called "direct" OEMs (e.g., Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.) more flexibility. If your computer was built by a direct OEM, you may have a hidden recovery partition on the hard drive from which you can recover the computer to its fresh from the factory state. Or you may be been provided system recovery media or a method of creating recovery media when you first began using the computer. Whether there was an option to create recovery media, and whether that option is still available, is entirely up to the computer's manufacturer. Go to the web site of your computer's manufacturer for more details.