http://community.acer.com/t5/Notebooks-Netbooks/Aspire-E1531-factory-reset-windows-8-1-and-memeory/m-p/244126#M40129 <P>Try This Links It may helpful to you</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="http://superuser.com/questions/492792/what-do-windows-8-refresh-and-reset-my-pc-really-do" target="_blank">http://superuser.com/questions/492792/what-do-windows-8-refresh-and-reset-my-pc-really-do</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/article/1000423/Acer-Aspire-E1-531-Laptop-Review/6#axzz311lszqY0" target="_blank">http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/article/1000423/Acer-Aspire-E1-531-Laptop-Review/6#axzz311lszqY0</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/3443121/how-reinstall-windows-8/" target="_blank">http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/3443121/how-reinstall-windows-8/</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks</P> Wed, 07 May 2014 11:24:22 GMT JobPencil 2014-05-07T11:24:22Z http://community.acer.com/t5/Notebooks-Netbooks/Aspire-E1531-factory-reset-windows-8-1-and-memeory/m-p/244074#M40120 <P>Hi, I want to know if I can undertake the above, yet still keep Office 2010 ...I cannot remember if I installed this or not . I do have a copy of Office 2010 and also windows 7 installations disks ... &nbsp;but not sure if the aspire came pre-installed or I used the office disks above ... How can I tell ?</P><P>How can &nbsp;you do this factory reset?</P><P><SPAN style="line-height: 15px;">How do I know what progams are in the reset?</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="line-height: 15px;">If I undertook an image back up to a pen does this save everything (inc any malware?)</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="line-height: 15px;">How can I create an image backup which gives me a pure factory OS with office ( if it came with it) </SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="line-height: 15px;">&nbsp;</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="line-height: 15px;">I have four meg ram and yet the laptop seems to be struggling, I have used all the windows cleaning file software , amlware bytes etc, etc &nbsp;yet its still lacks snap I checked device manager and &nbsp;often its system that is running at 46% ?</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="line-height: 15px;">&nbsp;</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="line-height: 15px;">Anyway I can copy any files/ pictures off the H/D and then start from scratch , but unsure as mentioned about the word program</SPAN></P> Wed, 07 May 2014 04:07:48 GMT http://community.acer.com/t5/Notebooks-Netbooks/Aspire-E1531-factory-reset-windows-8-1-and-memeory/m-p/244074#M40120 quovadis 2014-05-07T04:07:48Z http://community.acer.com/t5/Notebooks-Netbooks/Aspire-E1531-factory-reset-windows-8-1-and-memeory/m-p/244126#M40129 <P>Try This Links It may helpful to you</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="http://superuser.com/questions/492792/what-do-windows-8-refresh-and-reset-my-pc-really-do" target="_blank">http://superuser.com/questions/492792/what-do-windows-8-refresh-and-reset-my-pc-really-do</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/article/1000423/Acer-Aspire-E1-531-Laptop-Review/6#axzz311lszqY0" target="_blank">http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/article/1000423/Acer-Aspire-E1-531-Laptop-Review/6#axzz311lszqY0</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/3443121/how-reinstall-windows-8/" target="_blank">http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/3443121/how-reinstall-windows-8/</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks</P> Wed, 07 May 2014 11:24:22 GMT http://community.acer.com/t5/Notebooks-Netbooks/Aspire-E1531-factory-reset-windows-8-1-and-memeory/m-p/244126#M40129 JobPencil 2014-05-07T11:24:22Z