Greetings people, and Happy Christmas!
Not expecting a quick reply - doubtless you're all hanging up a stocking on your wall, and hoping that the snow will start to fall ...
Anyway, my PC, which I bought 19.11.06 is running XP, with which I am reasonably comfortable. Have just inherited son's castoff, which is a Compaq Presario CQ5223UK Desktop PC, running W7 Ultimate, although the label on the box says W7 Home Premium. This PC is stuffed full of crap. Games, utilities, God knows what. I know he has played with various operating systems, Windows and Linux, and I would like to reset it, back to factory fresh condition, and start again. I know I could delete stuff via Control Panel, but that takes forever and tends to leave stuff in the registry and elsewhere.
Needless to say the PC was supplied without any disks, which should be created at home, but weren't. There should be a drive on the PC with factory reset option, but it isn't there - or at least, I cannot see it, so son may or may not have deleted it.
My question is, how can I be sure that I am seeing everything on the hard drive? I know just enough about W7 to know that each user only sees what he is authorised to see. What I don't know is how to ensure that the account I'm using can see everything, or how to create an account that does see everything.
Does that make sense?