How to restore comp to factory settings

[Angela]

I thought it was you press F12 from the minute you turn your computer on and
it loads the restore screen, but that isnt woring for me and I don have the
disks... Is it a different F button??

I have HP Pavillion, Windows XP, Thanks

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
I've had pretty good luck with the HP website. Start at
http://www.hp.com/#Support and work through the selection process to get to
your specific model. I would then search on "recover, "recovery" and
"restore."

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Post by Angela
I thought it was you press F12 from the minute you turn your computer on and
it loads the restore screen, but that isnt woring for me and I don have the
disks... Is it a different F button??
I have HP Pavillion, Windows XP, Thanks