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<blockquote data-quote="Jmac" data-source="post: 4361470" data-attributes="member: 545486">Recipe for disaster and frustration ...If you do a clean install of XP, you won&#039;t have drivers for ANYTHING and, believe me, it is a fvcking pain in the *** to find drivers for pre-manufactured computers ...The unit will have a built-in recovery partition ...&nbsp; Power the unit on and hit F10 or F11 at the HP boot screen (it will tell you usually at the bottom left which one to hit) and it will boot into the recovery console ...&nbsp; From there, perform a complete system recovery without data backup and it&#039;ll restore it to how it came from factory ...From there, I recommend first uninstalling Norton and loading something decent on like Kaspersky or NOD32 (if you&#039;re cheap, AVG is free and half-decent, though it definitely has flaws) and then uninstalling the rest of the pre-loaded shit you don&#039;t want/need.&nbsp; After that, download all the Windows updates (including optional updates) and you should be set.&nbsp; The whole process will take a few hours, so make sure you plug it in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jmac, post: 4361470, member: 545486"] Recipe for disaster and frustration ... If you do a clean install of XP, you won't have drivers for ANYTHING and, believe me, it is a fvcking pain in the *** to find drivers for pre-manufactured computers ... The unit will have a built-in recovery partition ... Power the unit on and hit F10 or F11 at the HP boot screen (it will tell you usually at the bottom left which one to hit) and it will boot into the recovery console ... From there, perform a complete system recovery without data backup and it'll restore it to how it came from factory ... From there, I recommend first uninstalling Norton and loading something decent on like Kaspersky or NOD32 (if you're cheap, AVG is free and half-decent, though it definitely has flaws) and then uninstalling the rest of the pre-loaded shit you don't want/need. After that, download all the Windows updates (including optional updates) and you should be set. The whole process will take a few hours, so make sure you plug it in. [/QUOTE]

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