Hi i need help with my hp mini. when i turn it on it goes to the screen that says welcome and has my icon and says owner. but when i click on owner it says loading personal setting but then it says logging off and then saving your setting. but then it just stays at the same screen. is there a way to re format the entire computer so its like new?

The HP Mini laptop comes with either the Windows 7 or Windows Vista operating system.
You can restore the HP Mini to its factory settings using the laptop's recovery partition.
Restoring the HP Mini to its original factory settings will get rid of hard to eliminate viruses on the laptop's hard drive.
A factory restoration is also a good way to get rid of older files still stored on the computer that you no longer need and start with a clean slate.

Windows Vista
Click "Start" in the lower-left corner of your HP Mini Windows Vista home screen, then type "Recovery" into the Search box at the bottom of the Start menu. Click "Recovery Manager" in the list of options that appears above the Search box. The HP Recovery Manager will open. Click "Advanced Options" and then "System Recovery." Click "Next." Your HP Mini will restart. The HP Recovery Manager will open up automatically after the restart is complete. Click "System Recovery," and then click "Next." Click "No" if a message pops up on your screen asking if you want to use Microsoft System Restore. Select "Recover without backing up your files," and then click "Next." The restoration process begins. This could take between 30 and 90 minutes, depending on the of your hard drive and how much information you have stored on it. The HP Mini will restart when the laptop has been restored to its original factory settings, and you will be prompted to set up Windows Vista. Windows 7
Click the "Start" icon in the lower-left corner of your HP Mini Windows 7 home screen. Click "All Programs" and then click "Recovery Manager." Click "Recovery Manager" again to open the HP Recovery Manager program. Click "System Recovery" from the list of options beneath the "I need help immediately" section on the left side of the program. The HP Mini will automatically restart and open the HP Recovery Manager. Click "System Restore," and then click "Next." Click "No" if a message pops up on your screen asking if you want to use Microsoft System Restore. Select "Recover without backing up your files," and then click "Next." The restoration process could take between 30 and 90 minutes, depending on the of your hard drive and how much information you have stored on it. The HP Mini will restart when the laptop has been restored to its original factory settings, and you will be prompted to set up Windows Vista.

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if you can get to BIOS then you can restore factory settings. So start sour HP while welcoming the screen hit F10 and straight goes to BIOS. scroll to the right,hit on the EXIT by clicking OK button scroll down and click on Load default, confirm with YES, scroll up on Exit and save changes click ok. here your HP will retart and boot up to windows. all the BEST

Restoring the HP Mini to its original factory settings:

1. Click the "Start" icon in the lower-left corner of your HP Mini Windows 7 home screen. Click "All Programs" and then click "Recovery Manager."
2. Click "Recovery Manager" again to open the HP Recovery Manager program.
3. Click "System Recovery" from the list of options beneath the "I need help immediately" section on the left side of the program. The HP Mini will automatically restart and open the HP Recovery Manager.
4. Click "System Restore," and then click "Next." Click "No" if a message pops up on your screen asking if you want to use Microsoft System Restore.
5. Select "Recover without backing up your files," and then click "Next." The restoration process could take between 30 and 90 minutes, depending on the size of your hard drive and how much information you have stored on it. The HP Mini will restart when the laptop has been restored to its original factory settings, and you will be prompted to set up Windows.

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Generally all Windows OS has an option for sleep & hibernate.

Windows XP Users

• Sleep Mode

By letting your computer idle for a period of time, i.e. not moving the mouse/touchpad, or not pressing any keys except when playing a video, the screen or desktop monitor will go dark. You can resume the computer by moving the mouse/touchpad or by pressing any key on the keyboard.

• Hibernation or Standby mode

Click Start, click on Turn Off Computer, then click Stand By.

Windows VISTA/Windows 7 Users

To put Windows VISTA & Windows 7 in Sleep or in Hibernation, the steps basically the same. First click Start, then click the small arrow head located to the right of the Start Menu, then you click Sleep or Hibernate.


Fig. 1. Windows VISTA Start Menu. To put Windows VISTA to Sleep or Hibernate, click the small arrow head right next the Lock icon then click Sleep or Hibernate.


Fig. 2. Windows 7 Start Menu. To put Windows 7 to Sleep or Hibernate, click the small arrow head right next the word Shut Down then click Sleep or Hibernate.

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You did not specify the exact model of your HP Mini 110.

Please try to reinstall the Touchpad Driver of your HP MIni 110 to reactivate the scroll function.

You can download the driver here:http://www8.hp.com/us/en/support-drivers.html

Note: You need to select the exact model and the operating system (example: Windows 7 32 bit).

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This is due to third party software's or any hardware changes made.

Whats the error message you receive?

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del - the Task Manager should pop up. Click File, click Run, type explorer , click OK and the icons and the taskbar should appear.

This can be fixed..

Press and holt Control+Alt keys and then press Del key one...
Then you need to select the option task manager..
In task manager select file at the top...
Under file select new task and type explore.exe in lower case and push enter..
You must be able to see the start menu and the desktop icon...
If you still dont find the desktop icon - right on desktop and select show all desktop icons...
The problem should be fixed...

When it seems to have finished "booting up", press Ctrl-Shift-Esc to try to bring up the Task manager. If it allows you to do that, click the "New Process" button and enter "explorer.exe". If Windows is not damaged, this will give you back the Windows "shell" you are used to.

This is caused by two files that are corrupt on your system. If you can get to another XP computer and get the following two files from the windowssystem32 folder and copy them to the same location on your hard drive. The easiest way is to connect your hard drive to the other computer as a slave and copy them.

The files are: userinit.exe and wsaupdater.exe

You can pull the HD out of the problem computer and put it in place of the CD on the working one to copy these files.

Also if they both have floppy drives, make a dos boot disk on the and copy the two files to the floppy. Boot from this floppy and copy the files to the c:windowssystem32 folder.

Hope this helps