How to reboot to factory settings?

I just bought a MBP 13" from my friend. It has OSX Lion pre-installed on it so theirs no boot disc. I read the instructions online about rebooting but I didn't do it correctly. What I wanna do it get it back to as if the computer was being turned on for the 1st time. I changed the user name to my name, but when I go to the Air Drop section in Finder, his name still pops in that area. I wanna make it so that everything is under my name.
Basically, the login user has my name on it.
Air Drop has his name and when you go to USER folder, his name is there too. Want to get it so all of it is under my name.
Thanks to anyone that can help me.

Haseeb wrote:
I just bought a MBP 13" from my friend. It has OSX Lion pre-installed on it so theirs no boot disc. I read the instructions online about rebooting but I didn't do it correctly. What I wanna do it get it back to as if the computer was being turned on for the 1st time. I changed the user name to my name, but when I go to the Air Drop section in Finder, his name still pops in that area. I wanna make it so that everything is under my name.
Basically, the login user has my name on it.
Air Drop has his name and when you go to USER folder, his name is there too. Want to get it so all of it is under my name.
Thanks to anyone that can help me.
Buy your own copy of Lion using your own Apple ID and do an erase and clean install. It will be very hard with updates etc. with his ID attached to the Lion and the App Store.
Search these forums for instructions on clean install. There are a ton of posts on it.
Good Luck
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