I’ve been having trouble with this computer ever since the tech at Systemwide Testing set up their wireless and their printer. Wouldn’t shut down and half the time wouldn’t recognized the USB ports. Hate that.
So I did a restore from my WHS server — sometime around May, I’d cleaned up the computer and did a manual backup, so used that one for the restore. Man, is it lovely. Copy drivers off the server to a thumb drive, boot with the restore disk, and two hours later your computer is restored. I’ve restored three computers now that way.
Also did a backup right before I did the restore in case there were files I need (and there might well be).
I did run into one snag, which was very worrisome — I got the Blue Screen every time I tried to load the PC Restore disk that comes from HP. So I went out to the internet and downloaded the Restore Disk from Microsoft. It’s a dual boot and the 512 memory version also gave me the blue screen at the same point. The more than 512 memory version worked fine and I’m all restored and happy.