I am a beginer when it comes to setting up computers although I use them every day. I am wanting to clean off my laptop and restore it to factory. I am also not very cluey with security or virus protection or even setting up connections to the internet which I am guessing I will have to re-install and will also need some guidance on. Can someone help me and run through what I have to do? Also with making it go faster? And I am also thinking of adding more memory and think an external hard drive would be better?
How do I restore factory setting on HP laptop?computers
To restore HP laptop, Hold down F11 to get to restore partition (check your models documentation.)
It may be much slower than optimal like mine because HP put gigabytes of junk on it. Some examples are Norton antivirus, games, MS works, etc etc. It took me about 2 hours to uninstall the junk. The main problem was Norton. Once that was gone, the computer ran much better.
I had a 40GB hard drive and the "factory" install was 17GB!! A fresh install of Windows XP alone is 4GB.
An external hard drive would not be faster because it would be USB which is a slower interface that the interface of the internal hard drive.
More memory is alway better if the laptop supports it/has enough free slots.
How do I restore factory setting on HP laptop?hijack this
even better: go to Best Buy or other similar store or HP store
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