biccys

I get what you're trying to say, but doing a System Restore involves reinstalling from recovery anyway, so there's no difference, and as stated, I don't want to do that.

Thanks, I'll try that this evening! I thought there'd be a simple solution!

Sorry, I didn't make it clear. The installation calls for one of the files I deleted so it can't find them so won't install for me to uninstall.

Hi, after doing an XP recovery using the HP recovery partition, I thought it'd be a good idea to remove the packages I didn't use from HP, such as the DVD playing software. I dutifully uninstalled them via control panel, but couldn't remove them all, so I just deleted the files and folders they were contained in ( I KNOW....:mad:) Now, whenever I turn it on it tries to re-install those HP packages and I can't figure out 1: Where it's getting the prompts to do so and 2: How to stop it! I'd prefer not to do another recovery as I have the machine back to how I wanted it (before I deleted those pesky HP folders that is...!) TIA

Hi everyone, new to the forum, hope to get an answer that's bugging me since I re-formatted.