help unistalling fake windows OS

Here's my problem. I gave my second pc (ACER) to a guy who claimed to be a tech and could remove what we thought was a virus. After returning from my pc, I found that it has installed a non-windows operating system 7. The theme looks like windows 98, but has all the options of windows 7. Problem is we didn't want or demand and it did not help with the question that we (microsoft security databases helped). We need our pc off.

Problem: no real Windows 7 operating system is installed on drive D:, while our true operating system is installed on C:, although they seem to share some files & folders.

Menu of startup appears when turn on pc, choose Vista, after a few hours or mode 'sleep', out of nowhere, Windows 7 will run when I log back

My concern is, in my view, this guy's got fake jury that mess and if I uninstall will lose important files.

I want this trash alley. Can anyone help? Where should I start? I don't know what kind of mess this fool does but my eternal gratitude is with those who can help.

Here's my problem. I gave my second pc (ACER) to a guy who claimed to be a tech and could remove what we thought was a virus. After returning from my pc, I found that it has installed a non-windows operating system 7. The theme looks like windows 98, but has all the options of windows 7. Problem is we didn't want or demand and it did not help with the question that we (microsoft security databases helped). We need our pc off.

Problem: no real Windows 7 operating system is installed on drive D:, while our true operating system is installed on C:, although they seem to share some files & folders.

Menu of startup appears when turn on pc, choose Vista, after a few hours or mode 'sleep', out of nowhere, Windows 7 will run when I log back

My concern is, in my view, this guy's got fake jury that mess and if I uninstall will lose important files.

I want this trash alley. Can anyone help? Where should I start? I don't know what kind of mess this fool does but my eternal gratitude is with those who can help.

In a situation like this, where you do not trust the person who did this, and you don't know don't know exactly what he was doing, I recommend that you start over from scratch. Follow these steps:

1 back up your data on an external drive

2 reinstall Wineows Visa itself (which will begin formatting the drive for you and wipe everything on it).

3 charge your backup data.

4 reinstall all your programs from their original.

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