HP fail

[Bumsbry]

I have been commisioned to sort out the rents' old PC and naturally its a piece of HP pre-built nastyness.

I have ran the hard recovery but it still takes 5 minutes to boot (even though its a P4 with 512mb ram, I am sure a fresh windows xp should be way faster than this)

Can anyone reccomend some good free tools I can download to clean it out? Add/remove programs is only going to get me so far.

 

[Bumsbry]

it has a hp auto recovery, I dont have an XP disk for it. So it installs xp+hp crap. 512 should be fine, I used to have a 512 computer with xp and that was fast 'back in the day'. My rents are definitely still living 'back in the day'

actually come to think of it, I do have a spare 2gb stick lyng around that should fit