I found this message from an HP employee on a forum where they were asking how to recover a HP mini it may be of help to you. "F11 does not function on the HP Mini as there is no recovery partition. The unit includes an Operating System DVD and an application/Driver disc. The HP Mini 1000 is unique to consumer HP models, as most other HP consumer notebooks do not include discs and do have F11 function. If these were not included in the box please contact support. For my purposes, I have an external optical drive but I also use Symantec ghost 11. This allows you to create a bootable Ghost thumbdrive. Ghost also allows you to back the image up to a thumbdrive or external USB hard drive. I have images of HP MI, XP, and Win7 and can easily switch back and forth with Ghost, without requiring an optical drive any longer. -Bryan_N Although I am an HP employee, I am speaking for myself and not for HP. Message Edited by Bryan_N on 02-08-2009 12:33 AM -Bryan I am an HP employee " so it appears that some of the HP minis did not have a recovery partition but did come with 2 discs to use for recovery. This is the link to that forum discussion HP Mini however it sounds like there are several versions of the HP mini so not knowing which you have this may not apply if you do not have this version. what is your version and OS?

You do not show an anti virus program? Surely you have one? Malwarebytes and Superantispyware only run when you set them to do so. Spywareblaster is a TSR (terminate and stay resident) program. Computer security is a personal choice, personally on my Windows 7 computer I only have Microsoft Security Essentials and on my Windows 8 just Windows Defender and I am comfortable. Both use the Windows firewall. That is NOT to suggest others should follow suit, it is just my choices while others will no doubt have varying opinions on good, better, best.

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ok first of all if you actually had got firefox all you would have got was firefox so if you got something that put a bunch of other stuff on your desktop and elsewhere then you got a bad link that was not the legit firefox download. Try to do the restore as Joe said before you installed the firefox. either way you need to run an updated malwarebytes scan immediately. I would also run a free updated superantispyware scan. You obviously have downloaded malware that is now taking over parts of the pc and affecting your pictures and files. We recently had some posts on how careful one has to be now when doing downloads because even sites that once were safe to download from are no longer trustworthy and we are seeing a lot of people ending up with something other than what they wanted. Do you remember where you got the download for mozilla firefox? Malwarebytes SUPERAntiSpyware both are free install update and run full scans let us know what was found.