Factory settings on pavilion s5212y

I need to restore my Pavilion Slimline s5212y back to factory settings. My computer is all messed up, lol. I don't have any discs except restore cd which there is 3 but don't know what to do. everytime i go to recovery manager it restarts my computer and nothing happens. I can't use F11 key cause thats not working either. please help ready to throw this computer againt the wall. if you haven't figured it out yet i don't know what i'm doing as i'm not very computer savy. is there help with computers for dummies? lol

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I have a Pavilion g7-1150us laptop (Windows 7 was already pre-installed on it when I first purchased it). I wish to restore my laptop to factory settings. I have a couple of questions:
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Factory reset universal
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eg AEgen5 for basestation.
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