Instability in Windows

Last night, a virus decided to rear it's ugly head while I was browsing RMRK. That's nice and all, but I wasn't going to fuck around with it and did a system restore. Needless to say, whenever I get back on I start browsing around a different site and lo and behold, the computer crashed.

Deciding to not fuck around anymore at all, I ran Malwarebytes AV and Spybot S&D in an attempt to root out the problem. The comp crashed while Malwarebytes was running. I caught a few viruses after running it again and cleaned them out, and it crashed again. And I loaded up windoze and it crashed about 5 minutes in. Deciding that i'd rather go to sleep than trying to look through my porn collection and have it crash every five minutes, I left. As of this morning it's been buggy, and everytime I go to click the Shutdown button in the start menu it freezes.

Is it time to clear out Windows XP and shuffle in 7?

I'll clear out space in Juliet, my 500GB, and wipe Romeo, my 200GB 10k, but then what?

Assuming I manage to get a copy of Windows 7, whether burnt to DVD or actual, do I just pop it in at some point?

I haven't installed an OS that wasn't Lunix before, my father decided he'd rear the OS related tweaks, which included my overclocking.

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Crashing software wise of hardware wise?

If you overclock too much you will get instability. And sometimes in ways you might not think. Example, on my own athlon XP 1800+ if I overclocked too much, everything was fine and apparently stable, but all enemies and objects in return to castle wolfenstein (I was playing it at the time) became invisible.

I would have recommended malwarebytes but you did that. Try ComboFix too. Of course remove your overclock etc.

If still fucked, I say go to 7 =o

It's never been overclocked too much, I haven't changed it in about a year.

Also if I do go to 7, tell me, what the fuck DO I do?

I know I can go into my BIOS and select a harddrive to wipe out, but then what? Just open up the tray and put the disc in as my PC is loading, and then select it to boot from disc?

Have it boot from disc with the disc in the tray, and then the Windows 7 installer will load up. Just follow the steps it gives you. You shouldn't have to wipe your hard drive before the installation process, as Windows will format it to its own needs during the installation.

Windows 7 will just nix my harddrive?

Also it will only wipe the one that it's being installed to? I can't have Juliet wiped too, too much is on her.

Windows 7 will just nix my harddrive?

Also it will only wipe the one that it's being installed to? I can't have Juliet wiped too, too much is on her.

Yep! It'll give you an option to partition, reformat or use (already formatted) space on a specific drive, which it will let you pick.

Good luck, Windows 7 is really worth it.

So, Windows 7 is being delivered to me in a form of an ISO. I have 200+ blank DVD's, how exactly would I burn it to a DVD so that it would recognize that it's a windows disc?

Also for those of you who have experience in this type of OS install, how the hell am I going to get a serial+activator so it isn't 'THIS WINDOWS COPY ISN'T RIGHT RARHASKRJHSR /popupballoon'?

So, Windows 7 is being delivered to me in a form of an ISO. I have 200+ blank DVD's, how exactly would I burn it to a DVD so that it would recognize that it's a windows disc?

The same way you would burn any ISO.

Also for those of you who have experience in this type of OS install, how the hell am I going to get a serial+activator so it isn't 'THIS WINDOWS COPY ISN'T RIGHT RARHASKRJHSR /popupballoon'?

I got "my copy" with an activator that set it as an authentic copy of windows, and it also had the (necessary) serial. Search Demonoid or ISOhunt for "Windows 7" and see if there are any files that will do what you need.
Check out the comments (if there are any) on the place your copy was delivered from.

Managed to run Combofix, everything seems stable. I will, however, keep Windows 7 as a DVD just in case. Combofix found a nasty little rootkit in my registry. Also thanks for the help SJR.