Windows XP Home and Open Office

[JudyB]

 ::)I have HP pavilion XT XT963 which had Windows XP Home installed.  I had a crash and I ordered the 7 discs from HP so I could fix my problem.  A friend came over, looked at my computer and installed Open Office without asking if I wanted this or if I had the system recovery discs.  Well, needless to say I prefer my regular Windows XP Home without the office. What do I need to do to correct this?  My computer skills and knowledge is limited.  I know I heard something about backing up my stuff but I need to know how to do this also.  I have the disc to write to but know nothing about how or what to do.......Please, Please, someone help me out on this.....

[Astoria]

Use the HP disc to restore your system, and simply uninstall OpenOffice.

[Eg0Death]

To get rid of Open Office: Start -> Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> find Open Office and click Remove.

According to HP's website your computer should have a CD-RW drive. 
Use My Computer to find the files you want to write to the disk. 
Right click the files and select "send to CD-RW". 
After you have selected all the files you want, put the CD-R in the drive. 
Use My Computer and double click on the CD-RW drive.
The window should say "Files Ready to be Written to the CD". 
Click on "Write these files to CD" (Upper left corner of the window).

Does this help?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I know I heard something about backing up my stuff but I need to know how to do this also.

There is System Restore to back up your Windows Settings and you can use it to remove installed software or program setting/registry changes.
There is also physically backing everything up which would involve a secondary device like another hard drive, flash drive or CD.

[JudyB]

Thanks for your reply.  I will try this and see how it goes......