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First, you should not post unique product keys on a public forum, they could get stolen and used by others to illegally activate their own copies of Windows.

Second, run showkey plus from this...

You can click on the thumbs up icons on the bottoms of the posts that you find helpful. Also, always post back if something solved a problem for you so that others can benefit from what worked for...

The HP restore USB will contain all the extra programs that manufacturers like to include. Some are nothing more than advertisements for full programs you must pay for if you want them. Some are...

Correct. And after the restore is complete, the first step that I would do is uninstall it.

But, also, instead of doing a full restore using the HP restore disks, I would do a clean install of...

If you are going to use the HP recovery media - then the first step that I would do before anything else would be to uninstall McAfee.

Personally, I would not install any extra anti-virus programs beyond Windows Defender. But if you are going to, then that would be the last item I install.

I go with:

1. Make a system image...