Mirar toolbar problems and recovery disk?

My kids accidentally downloaded the Mirar Toolbar, and it has really raised heck with my count. I'm not knowledgeable enough to go into the registry and fix everything, but managed to slow it down a bit. I get pop up Windows I am in another site, and also if I try to go anywhere in a search engine, it refers me to a different search site. Real boring!  A friend told me that I have to throw everything away and start again, but I don't have a disk for my windows XP, or the original dic of HP with all the drivers I needed to reinstall. What are my options? Help!  My model is P9816A, HP Pavillion 04.

Hello fairtime2, sorry to hear about your problems with your HP computer. It seems you might have a virus. From your description, it seems to be a virus.

You normally would not have any disk backup of your system, but rather a backup of partition on your hard disk to restore the system to its original state when shipped from HP.

Here a link to how to restore from recovery for your computer. You will lose all the data added to the computer, since you started using it.

Just look at the Windows XP Recovery section.

As your system is so unstable, you may not be able to accomplish this from Windows.

On some systems, when the system boots, you can see a screen that will show you a few options.

Just look at the recovery section during startup.

One of these options is for a restoration of recovery. Simply press the F10 key repeatedly to enter this recovery restore utility.

Choose to format the hard drive. You will get an error that all data will be lost, but just continue and in 15 minutes, the system must be restored to its original state.

This seems to be the only way to recover from some of these nasty viruses.

I hope this helps.

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