How do I Restore my system to the original factory condition ?

[IT_WinSec]

Symptoms

In case your Windows is acting weird, is extremely slow or fails to load, you may want to restore the device to factory default condition. In addition to that, you may want to reset the device if it changes ownership (donations, presents, etc)

Solution

This is possible thanks to special hidden recovery partition(s) stored locally in your computer's HDD. If they are present and intact, you do not need to use additional media, DVDs, USB drives. The process, known as HP System Recovery,  removes all hard drive data and reinstalls the original operating system, drivers and preinstalled apps.

HP Recovery Manager can be accessed from the Windows Start Menu or by tapping F11 key immediately after powering on the notebook/PC.

HP has detailed documents explaining the process for

• Windows 10 only => https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-system-restore-a5ae3ed9-07c4-fd56-45ee-096777ecd14e
• Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and 11
• RECOMMENDED => HP Guided Solutions (Windows 7, 8, 10) => https://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01948570.pdf

Performing clean "vanilla" installation of Windows may also be possible. Feel free to ask in the HP Community.

We would like to encourage you to post a new topic in the community so our member will be able to help you as well, here is the link to post.

[praveen196]

@Alexander48 Welcome to HP Community!

I understand that you would like to restore the factory default for HP Deskjet 2620 printer.

Do not worry. I  will try to help you in this regard.

Try restoring the network settings to defaults - 

Press the Wireless button and the Cancel button from the printer control panel at the same time, and then hold them for three seconds. 

Hope this helps! Keep me posted. 

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[Alexander48]

Thank you! It worked fine.

Br/Alexander

[praveen196]

@Alexander48

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[Bipolarific]

my comouter says that I no longer have my backup partition

[KODAKDCTCRUEL]

I want to take my laptop and completely erase it, including all of the bloatware and anything else that I can do to make the laptop faster.