Reset Thinkpad X240

[haenlein]

Dear all,

I have received a new Thinkpad X240 on which sombody has installed a list of programs I would like to get rid of. Since I did not yet put any data on the X240, I would like to reset it to factory settings. However, I cannot find the ThinkVantage button that I have on my X220 and that I can use for this purpose. Does anyone know how a reset is possible? Ideally I would want the PC to reset so that there is only a plain version of Windows on it

Another issue is that my version of Windows 7 is currently in French vs. English. But I hope to be able to solve this once the PC has been reset.

Thanks for your help in advance and best wishes,

Michael

[RealBlackStuff]

Welcome to the Forum.
Te reinstall to factory standard, press F11 a few times at bootup.
That will get you into Recovery & Rescue.
Also, download the userguide here: http://www.lenovo.com/shop/americas/con ... _ug_en.pdf
R&R on page 55.
If you have W7 Ultimate, you can select and change a language any time.
If your Recovery partition contains W7-Pro or W7-Home you only have that R&R language.
You'd need to get Recovery CDs in your required language from: https://www.lenovorecovery.com/Extranet/Questions.aspx
But before you do anything else, create a set of recovery disks from your current install.
Read the above userguide.