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

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).

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