Acer Aspire Timeline Win7 not working properly

Hi,only joined a week ago,not really into computers that much,but being a bit silly,got one second hand,it does work,but I have had a few problems,the windows update didn't work,but went onto Microsoft site and sorted that,there were a few other things that needed to be looked at,but the main thing that's come upis,i wanted to get windows live up&working because I use Gmail,and for some reson when I logged on it came up page not found most of the time,however the windows live will not or cant send or receive email,no matter what is done,so I got a scan done by Microsoft & it came back with a lot of things that are not up to date,or not set right,the list is fairly long.

So in my mind I wonder if the best way to resolve thease and any other unkown problems would be to look at having the old 7 completely removed & a new windows 7 installed,as I don't really know what,or whatnot has been done on this laptop.
Any help/thoughts/ideas would be welcome.Dont buy second hand already learnt!!!!!

Cheers Goldman ITs An Acer Aspire Timeline X4820T

Hi,thanks for that,only problem I have with doing something like that is am really out of my depth with it,it all sounds streight forward from reading this,but to be honest I am not confident in myself to do it,i don't know anyone who could help me if it went pear shaped.

Goldman

Hi,yes I had a look at the acer recovery,and had a read about it all,it dose seem sort of easy to do,just as a matter of interest,i have found that if I put the google webpage & also the gmail login page in the Compatibily View Box,which I found on internet settings when on the webpage,it seems to work fine,but both come up in an older format,but without any problems,so could this mean its my Win 7 OS that's not up to date,or of course its got some sort of problem,as it stands at the moment,am going to give it a bit of time before I do anything,as for a new install,i would be looking to have it done if that's what it comes to,i just don't know anything like enough to do it myself.

Cheers Goldman

Hi,as it happens I don't really have a great deal on it,and I can transfer the stuff I do have off my netbook I have,so that's something not to have to worry about,i will see how it goes ,and then decide which way to go with it.
Thanks for the help.

Goldman

Hi,yes I will let you know as & when & what I do with it,think it going to have to be done myself,even though I don't really do a lot on it,it needs to be right.

Cheers Goldman