Laptop Arcer about 6 years old… Think about selling the thing… If it's worth anything.
Do not quite understand how you mean that.
If you have a Windows 10 installed and then reset to factory settings, you will get a reset Windows 10.
If you have a Windows 7 installed and then reset to factory settings, you will get a reset Windows 7.
At Win7, the support (security updates, software updates, etc) will expire on January 14, 2020, but that only means that you will not receive any new packages from then on. Say the system is unsafe and sketchy, possibly running some programs then no longer on it. But the OS Win7 will still be installable.
As the name implies, the PC will be with it
Factory supplied
reset! In addition there's an extra hard disk area, which contains a compressed image, that then, after formation of the hard disk, plays this original image again.
So then the previous system is back!
So that does not bring much, so it's better to completely re-install a system.
Since Win10 was already registered on this PC (if it was already activated there, it is so) it will also be unlocked immediately free of charge!
Who had win7 or 8 when buying no longer remember correctly and I have all the updates to the present win 10 istaliert
I hope that all private data is no longer available
But have you installed a Win10? Then it would play a role if you have previously deleted the entire contents of your Win7 hard drive during the installation (which I suppose) or if you have Win10 installed on a new partition and Win7 still lives on another partition.
But if you never have Win10 installed then you still have a Win7.
For Win7 there are only Win7 updates.
Say after a reset to the factory settings you would have just a reset Win7.
Since your device is 6 years old, I suspect that you have a Win8 on it. Usually, the latest software is also installed on a new device.
Ah yes, which operating system you have, you see the following:
Press the Windows key and the Pause / Break key at the same time, then the system will open. There under Windows edition you can see your operating system.
I did not install anything you used then the free updates of win7 or 8 on win10
Achsooo, then you mean the upgrade. Then it depends on whether you have deleted the entire content of your hard drive during the installation process (which I suppose) or if you have Win10 installed on a new partition and the old Win still lives on another partition.
Press the Windows key + R key
Enter diskmgmt.msc and press Enter
Take a screenshot of it and post it here OR write down which disk has which partitions
For the "average gas consumer" - yes.
If you want to sell the PC or just the hard drive and do not know the buyer, then read this:
https://www.pc-magazin.de/ratgeber/festplatte-restlos-loeschen-sicher-saeubern-ssd-secure-erase-anleitung-hdd-3196204.html
