Archived from groups: comp.sys.hp.hardware (More info?)
I friend of mine asked me if I would look at his pc. Said it was soooo
slow. He wasn't able to do much of anything with it. He has had it
about 2yrs. Has Win XP Home for the os. AV subscription ran out 3mo
after he got it. Don't think it had ever been de-fragged or had any
think else done to it as far as maintaining it. I do a little pc tune
up for friends but I haven't had to do much with HP pc's. My last
resort to fix this one up was to do a sys restore. I tried the safe
restore ( the one to just restore the os) but it seems to be so mucked
up that it wont even finish that. It gets down to the last blue screen
when it is ready to finish the restore and it just hangs there. I
guess at this point my problem is that I cant seem to find the right
key to push at start up to access the sys restore feature, I found it
by accident the first time. I use f1 for sys set-up but I need to know
which key is used for sys restore. This whole thing would have been a
lot simpler if his copy of WinXP would have been on cd and not on his
hard drive. So if I haven't bored everyone to death with all this
reading ,could get a clue as to the key to use for sys restore?
Thanks.
I friend of mine asked me if I would look at his pc. Said it was soooo
slow. He wasn't able to do much of anything with it. He has had it
about 2yrs. Has Win XP Home for the os. AV subscription ran out 3mo
after he got it. Don't think it had ever been de-fragged or had any
think else done to it as far as maintaining it. I do a little pc tune
up for friends but I haven't had to do much with HP pc's. My last
resort to fix this one up was to do a sys restore. I tried the safe
restore ( the one to just restore the os) but it seems to be so mucked
up that it wont even finish that. It gets down to the last blue screen
when it is ready to finish the restore and it just hangs there. I
guess at this point my problem is that I cant seem to find the right
key to push at start up to access the sys restore feature, I found it
by accident the first time. I use f1 for sys set-up but I need to know
which key is used for sys restore. This whole thing would have been a
lot simpler if his copy of WinXP would have been on cd and not on his
hard drive. So if I haven't bored everyone to death with all this
reading ,could get a clue as to the key to use for sys restore?
Thanks.
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