My HP Pavillion comes with a Recovery Partition. I think that is what I would have to use because I'm pretty sure they didn't give me windows disks. I've got one more place to look for them.... And I don't even know what options the recovery partition is going to give me. And I'm betting it will be harder for me than for someone who is more comfortable with these things.

Advanced System Optimizer - I'll never use something like that again.

What about Revo uninstaller? Is that bad too?

Knock on wood, I'm not having any problems right now, but I do understand what you are saying....