I bought a Toshiba Satellite laptop about 2 and a half years ago from Best Buy, and it came with the 32-bit version of Windows7 already installed on it. It worked really well for a long time, but for the past 6 months or so it's been a bit slower and takes longer to start up and shut down. I've tried all the usual things to speed it up (defrag, CCleaner, msconfig, etc), but have come to the conclusion that the only thing for it is to do a clean system restore. That's where I hit a roadblock: though I would say I am at least a little computer savvy, I've never re-installed windows and can't find how to do so with only the product code on the sticker. Hence my somewhat stupid question of how to do so without crashing the system.
*Note: I definitely don't have a virus or anything, I've scanned with multiple anti-malware services a million times.
*Note: I definitely don't have a virus or anything, I've scanned with multiple anti-malware services a million times.