Factory reset advice on Acer Laptop

scooby75 · 20 Jun 2020 at 13:29

Hello everyone, hope you are all safe and well.

I have an Acer Aspire 5750 which works well despite its age. I want to give it to my mother. I've backed up all my files and want to wipe th laptop clean but not being very techie, I'm confused on a couple of things.

It's now running on Windows 10, but when I bought it, it was on Windows 7. So if I did a factory reset, would it reset with Windows 7? If so, would getting back to Windows 10 be possible? There is no recovery disc BTW.

I can't help thinking I'm opening a world of pain doing this and would be better being thorough in, ahem, wiping evidence of my activities from the laptop manually (and hope I don't miss anything).

Any advice welcome.

scooby75 · 20 Jun 2020 at 13:44

Actually, I might have answered my own question.

If I create a new user account for my mother with full admin rights, then use that account to delete my account, that would delete all data wouldn't it?

MOOGLEYS · 23 Jun 2020 at 19:17

You can just reset the windows 10 installation so it’s fresh. If you go into settings and then recovery it’s an option in there..

scooby75 · 23 Jun 2020 at 20:01

Many thanks. I've decided just to search, backup and remove anything and everything that wasn't system related and created new account.

It's running like a dream which I'm pleased with for a 15 year old laptop. Now it's time to get me a new one... So another thread is needed!

Thanks again.