I've been working on my fathers old laptop. Hp Pavilion ZV5000. It's incredibly slow. Like nearly unusable. It's 512mb DDR, but it's still pretty slow even for that.
He doesn't have the restore disc. Hp doesn't sell the restore disc anymore, nor do they offer the downloadable software, nor does the computer even have any of the restore software. The pressing of F[any] button doesn't do anything. The earliest restore point isn't early enough/wont do anything noteworthy. As far as I can tell, there isn't even any viruses?
Even just simply restarting the PC takes a good 2 minutes or so.
I've gone through msconfig and found nothing unusual or noteworthy and also disabled non-essential services and startup options.
He ran some software he just bought called fix-it utilities 11. I don't know the results, but it's still slow so apparently that didn't help either way.
We've backed up all important info. Looking for a restore to factory settings primarily, but there doesn't seem to be any options?? Advice? Help? Etc.
I'm truly stumped on what to do now. :/