This doesn't exactly answer your question, but I'd
suggest you look into disk imaging. With a disk image
you can have a stored copy of your OS after you've
installed software and got it just the way you want
it. Then you can restore that backup at any time
easily. It's a lot easier and more secure (no need
to worry about software disks and activation codes)
than just being able to do a factory restore.

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| I bought an old computer that was refurbished by U.S. Micro
| Corporation, an authorized Microsoft refurbisher.
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| It came with Windows 7 Professional installed, and I don't see anyway
| to make the recovery disks. There is no recovery manager in Programs,
| but there is a recovery partition.
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| Can recovery disks only be made for a new computer?
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| description: Low Profile Desktop Computer
| product: HP Compaq 8000 Elite SFF PC (LC356EP#ABA)
| vendor: Hewlett-Packard
| width: 64 bits
| product: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E6700 @ 3.20GHz
| 8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)