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Argh, I wish I was better at techy stuff!
My laptop is getting slower and slower, and its got a problem with just going into hibernate mode randomly. (Don't think its anything to do with overheating as it can either happen half an hour in, or hours later).
I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but I've lost the disks (:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: ) and as I already created one copy it won't let me create another copy.
Can one of you guys help me? Any options?
Got an HP laptop running windows vista.
My laptop is getting slower and slower, and its got a problem with just going into hibernate mode randomly. (Don't think its anything to do with overheating as it can either happen half an hour in, or hours later).
I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but I've lost the disks (:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: ) and as I already created one copy it won't let me create another copy.
Can one of you guys help me? Any options?
Got an HP laptop running windows vista.
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I don't know why that would happen without getting my hands on the machine, but I think you should check how many processes are normally running after startup (check the system tray for a quick indication) and see if any rogue process is hogging resources. Also, are you using Firefox? if so try downloading the latest version, un-install your installed version and re-install the downloaded latest version.
Nah, it had some sort of recovery disk creator programme on it, so made them when I first started it up.
Will look into your other suggestions tomorrow, thanks
Remember to save ALL your work, savegames, pictures, music etc. to a USB stick beforehand!!
The Windows 7 install is very straight forward but it will erase EVERYTHING on your laptop so you will have to start from scratch.
Whether this will cure the hibernate problem I don't know as it may be a hardware fault. But it doesn't hurt to try!!
So I tried some of your suggestions, got my friend's dad to look at it, but in the end I found a programme already installed which allowed me to restore it to factory settings without the disks, so did that.
I've got everything backed up.. well I say everything - I think I may have lost my bookmarks, but apart from that I think I've got everything
One thing however... I've obviously lost Microsoft Office. I think (and hope!) that I have the disks and the product key somewhere, and so it may be OK!
For future reference though.. is there anyway to deactivate a version? Because obviously when you buy it, it only allows you to use the product key say 5 times.. So now I'm going to have to use up another installation even though its the same computer. Understand what I mean? Anyway around it?
Thanks
Edit - oh another question. I can now make another set of recovery disks... if I make them after I install a load of software will it include that or just literally the factory settings stuff?