Help Request: Restore to Factory Settings

[Lt. Sand Wigger]

I have an old HP Pavilion a1430n that is rapidly going down the toilet and I think restoring it will delete a lot of the junk files and viruses spyware etc. so I can 'revive' it for a couple months before I can afford to get a new PC, but for whatever reason I can't find where to restore it to factory settings. It is running Windows XP. I know how to restore it to a previous date but can't find the Factory Settings button. I've tried googling it and looking into it as much as I can but to no avail. I thought there was chance one of you great people would be able to assist me.

P.S. I got this pc as a hand me down gift from a friend awhile back and do not have the discs that come with it.

Thank you in advance for any help.

[Deleted]

There is no "factory settings" button in any version of Windows, save Windows 8 but that's not out yet

After a bit of research it seems your PC doesn't have a recovery partition on the hard disk, so your best bet is downloading or ordering the recovery media from here or "obtaining" XP / 7 and installing a-fresh.