How to go back to first time setup assistant?

Hi, 1st time mac user.  I just missed to migrate my PC data to my MBA during the first time setup.  As I wanted to keep my mails and it's setting from my PC to the initial mac user account, is restoring my MBA to it's factory setting the only way?
Please help!

Thanks!  The url does offer excellent advice.
In the end, I did a clean install (factory default) and start all over again.
Since then, I've been pretty much disarray as I found out half of my outlook mails didn't get port over.

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