Have you been attacked by a virus? Are you thinking about reformatting your pc? Have you documents become corrupted? There's still hope for you! You don't need to format that PC whether it is booting or not. Post your malware problems here and get them solved .

i recently encountered such problems and i had my pc formatted with just 10/100 of my files recovered. but my problem is that my task manager is disabled. how do i enable it. cos i need to install windows media player 11 and it say registry editing is not possible. please help know how to resolve this issue.

@joeblaq: just type the following in your run window. "reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies" without the quotes and confirm by pressing y and enter. That's all! It'll enable both your registry and task manager.

how do i format my dell inspiron laptop?

Formatting is not that much of a big deal. Why do you want to format your PC? Is there any specific problems you are having with installing a new operating system? Be precise.