System Recovery for P755-S5390

How do I restore my Toshiba Satellite P755-S5390 computer back to it's  original factory settings ? And will this possibly remove viruses/trojans that might have effected my computer and solve blue screen issues while running virus scans. I was told it will since the computer was able to successfully log into safe mode. Also, I have the Toshiba Recovery Media just lost the instructions to how to use them a copy of how to use them will also be beneficial
Thank you in advance
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Complete instructions for doing an out-of-box recovery start on page 62 of your User's Guide. You also have a copy there on your desktop.  It will answer all your questions. And yes, your machine will be exactly like it was the day you first started it--nothing more, nothing less.
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    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15 Apr 9 23:36 SDV.FLG
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  • A system recovery was performed on my pc. When I re-installed firefox all my bookmarks had disappeared. This happened more than a wk ago so the solution of recovery for 5 days didn't work. Is there any way to recover them from more than 7 days ago?

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