[SOLVED] Cleaning out a school laptop

[mrgrunts]

My son had graduated from K12 home schooling and was able to keep the laptop that they gave him in order to do the schooling. I run a sequenced light show 3 x's a year. With that said My laptop took a crap, the one I use to sequence and run my shows. I dont need anything big to do this so instead of buying a new laptop I figured I could use my sons school laptop, it would be perfect for this. However, K12 has there own software on this laptop that I want to remove, clean out and start fresh with a clean copy of windows, My LOR ( Lights O Rama ) software and my back-up files for that software that I was able to get off my old laptop that took a crap. ( I was lucky I did a back-up after my last show. I would of lost 6 years of work ) This is my question. When I do a disk clean, it removes all the files to a clean drive but when restarting windows it still loads K12 info and log-in, along with K12's Admin rights. How can I remove all of this K12 info and rights and just start with a fresh laptop? I contacted K12 tech center but they were no help. When I contacted them I figured I would just take the HD out , wipe it clean with my PC, Put it back in and load a clean copy of windows and drivers for the laptop however when the school sent the laptop it came preloaded with all the drivers and there software, No disks included. I asked there tech center for the disks and was told that they ( the school ) receive them preloaded and just send them out to the students and they have no recovery disks ether. ( what a tech center, lol ). So does anyone know How I can remove all the K12 software off so I can use this for my light show programming? Please let me know, any info would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ryanbodner1]

What Windows version is it?

 

[yolo4mcsawggins]

would you be able to replace the storage drive completely ?

 

[ElectrO_90]

If its windows 10, there are options that removes everything from the computer and wipes it all clean, as in all the users data and things.
Any software that is installed on the computer can always be uninstalled
As for your 6 years of hard work - why don't you use a cloud service as backup? It's free and will save you a headache when the enevitable (which did happen) happens again!

 

[Math Geek]

you need to identify the version of windows on it and then simply do a clean install . this will wipe the system completely and remove everything that is on it. the clean install will allow you to start fresh like you want to.

in the search box type "system information" and it will tell you exactly what windows version is on it. with that we can point you to where/how to get a copy to do the fresh install.

if you can't figure out what it is telling you,take and post a screenshot and can read it for you.