[Oveee]

Ok, I have recieved a free office desktop computer from some office that takes calls (the company is closed). (btw I didnt steal the computer :P)

Ive plugged it in, and there is a really strict security on it. I can access one user, and I doubt hes an admin.
There are two desktop icons, Internet Explorer and something called "Agent6", probably part of the company, cause when I doubleclick it, it tells me there is no SQL server thing recognised. The Start button has two options. Shut Down or All programs. All programs has one option. Startup. Startup has NOTHING.

I cannot leftclick anywhere, I cannot start the windows explorer, and internet explorer is pretty useless without internet.

Is there any way I can format or recover the original XP, with a clean start? Any CDs I can put into the PC to format? I dont have the xp installation CD, but would that work? Or is the computer un"fixable"?

Thanks in advance

[etaf]

sounds like its been set up for a callcentre with very limited user control
any idea what the spec is

your probably goinf to need a new XP CD (Unlikely you will have the CDs that came with the PC) The IT dept would have just rebuilt to there requirements
whats the make and model of the PC
is there a windows labelanywhere on the machine, you may be able to call microsoft and quote the numbers there for a new CD at a minimum cost

[Oveee]

would the 25 digit product key help?
its on a sticker with a adress www.microsoft.com/piracy/howtotell
plus other things, Windows XP Professional, FujitsuSiemensComputers and stuff... there doesnt seem to be specs anywhere on or in the computer,,

There is also another sticker showing product number, model number and system number and other things.

Is this enough?
Sure theres no other way to "delete" this ?

[etaf]

if you posted these details
product number, model number and system number
we may be able to look up the specs from the website

I think its very unlikely it will have a partition to rebuild the PC to factory condition - but it may still have that
however as you have verylimited access - it will be difficult to tell .... again there may be a way to access the partition as it boots, available on the manufacturers website
HP use F11 on boot

[Oveee]

I just booted from a Linux Mint Live CD, and found out:
Memory: 465.4 MiB (total)
Swap:116.4 MiB (total)
Space: 37.3 GiB (total)
I checked the partitions from the Live CD, and there is only one ( sda1 (ntfs) ).

With Live CDs, I seem to get enough access. Is it possible to delete stuff from the harddisk from the live cd? from what ive been told, the live cd does nothing to the computer, but is this true if I access the harddisk from it? In that case I can delete program files or whatever I need from there, right?

[etaf]

465 MB of memory
possibly also has 32MB of onboard video
But that should make approx 512MB ...... and does not ....

Not sure what you can do from liveCd

it clearly runs - you going to need a OS to run.