Much as I despise widows and everything M$, for the same reasons that one should avoid selling one's brother-in-law a used car, I am resisting the urge to try to convert my nephew to Linux for now. Instead, I just need to find a fast and efficient way to get his win-xp box restored to a working state ... and I do not have an xp disk and key available to reinstall. So, surely would appreciate any guidance from the plug brain trust on this. I wasted 4 hours yesterday using the HP restore function and when that was done I could not get the control panel to display so I could delete a lot of stuff that I suspect is causing the system to run incredibly slow and continually self-reboot. Help! --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss