Cleaning my mac book to make it run like brand new.

Want to restore macbook late 2008 to factory settings but cannot find discs. I just want the feel of a brand new macbook, but keep the other apps that I have purchased. How can I do it without restoring to factory settings.

Thank you..I called Apple Support and they were gracious enough to resend me the original disc. Problem now is it needs to be brought back to original state, which is leopard, then snow leopard, then lion....  Oh well, 1 disc down...I just need to find the other ones. Thanks again!

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    I recently bought a mac book pro and transferred my data from old mac book air. i did have issues transferring but eventually updated all software to new yosemite and that allowed it. subsequently the speed is so slow won't even open normal webpages even though I'm on fibre. i've read the similar posts and i'mnot very technical so they mean little to me. Am i helpable?
    Glyn

    Problem description:
    running very slow on brand new mac book pro,
    EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)
    Report generated 10 November 2014 14:21:47 GMT
    Hardware Information: ℹ️
      MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) (Verified)
      MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro11,2
      1 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core
      16 GB RAM Not upgradeable
      BANK 0/DIMM0
      8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
      BANK 1/DIMM0
      8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
      Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
      Wireless:  en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
    Video Information: ℹ️
      Intel Iris Pro -
      Color LCD spdisplays_2880x1800Retina
    System Software: ℹ️
      OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 1:39:47
    Disk Information: ℹ️
      APPLE SSD SM0256F disk0 : (251 GB)
      S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
      EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
      Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB
      Macintosh HD (disk1) /  [Startup]: 249.77 GB (99.99 GB free)
      Core Storage: disk0s2 250.14 GB Online
    USB Information: ℹ️
      Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
      Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
      Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
      Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
      Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
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      Mac App Store and identified developers
    Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
      /Applications/Parallels Desktop.app
      [not loaded] com.parallels.kext.hidhook (8.0 18608.898384) Support
      [not loaded] com.parallels.kext.hypervisor (8.0 18608.898384) Support
      [not loaded] com.parallels.kext.netbridge (8.0 18608.898384) Support
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      [not loaded] com.parallels.kext.vnic (8.0 18608.898384) Support
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      MobileBrServ: Path: /Library/StartupItems/MobileBrServ
      Startup items are obsolete and will not work in future versions of OS X
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      [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
      [running] com.trusteer.rapport.rapportd.plist Support
    Launch Daemons: ℹ️
      [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
      [loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
      [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
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      [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
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