You could perform a factory recovery. That's one option. You could hit F8 repeatedly when you turn the laptop on (after the HP logo vanishes) and choose to boot to safe mode, then run your virus, malware, and spyware cleaning tools.
This might restore functionality if the issue is an infection.
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