Restore my Hewlett packard to factory settings without cd?
Does anyone have any idea how to do this? My computer will turn on like everything is working. It'll start up with a thing that says "owner" so I click on owner and just when my desktop is about to load, it stops and goes back to the "owner" page. It does this even in safe mode... So I give up. I just wanna wipe my computer clean. Any ideas how? Thanks
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You didn't say what OS you are running but I'm guessing it's Windows XP. If you really want to install again, you could try pressing F11 while booting. Your recovery partition should be unaffected by this problem. You can reload your operating system from there. This behavior is usually caused directly or indirectly by malware. It changes the registry to point to its own program (usually it is wsaupdater.exe) instead of userinit.exe. Subsequently, if your malware or antivirus program whacked wsaupdater or its ilk, you can't log in any more after it tells you to reboot. If you boot into the XP recovery console you could try copying c:\windows\system32\userinit.exe to c:\windows\system32\wsaupdater.exe. If this gets you logged in, you should at some point fix the registry to point to userinit.exe. There is another method you can try if you if that didn't work but it entails booting into a standalone XP environment and changing the registry. If you are up for that, you can google userinit.exe "hiren" registry. Put hiren in quotes or you'll get too many bogus hits. The hits at the top will tell you how to do it. There are similar solutions right here in Yahoo Answers.
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Ensure that System Restore is enabled by clicking "Start>Control Panel>Performance and Maintenance." Select the "System Restore" tab. Under "Available Drives," see if the drive you want to restore is being monitored. Ensure that the "Turn off System Restore on All Drives" check box is not checked. Select "Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore." This will open the System Restore Wizard window. Select the check box next to "Restore my computer to an earlier time." Click "Next." Click on a date on the calendar that is at least 1 day in the past. In the pane on the right, select a restore point from the list. Click "Next." Save your work and close any programs you currently have running. Click "Next" to shut down Windows and restore your computer to an earlier state.
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