Refresh or Reset PC in Windows 8

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Windows 8 introduces an amazing new feature – something which will prove to be a life-saver at times! How often has it happened that you have faced a situation of a major PC failure and realized that you are now going to have to spend several hours just to be able to restore your PC back to the way things were!? Spending hours or paying someone else money to reconstruct your Windows computer, is something which we could all do without, right?

Windows 8 provides a consistent experience to get the software on any Windows 8 PC back to a good and predictable state. It has stream-lined the process so muc, so that you can get your PC back to the desired state quickly in a matter 0f 1-20 minutes, rather that taking up your whole day. And the best part is, that you do not lose you data and files in the process.

In short, Windows 8 provides you with a “button” to fix “everything”! Windows 8 now comes with 2 options to restore your PC to its original state – the Refresh option and the Reset option!

refresh reset windows 8 Refresh or Reset PC in Windows 8

Refresh Your PC in Widows 8

The Refresh button gives you an easy option to restart fresh while retaining all of your documents, accounts, personal settings, and even the apps you’ve downloaded from the Windows Store.

To carry out this Refresh or basic reset:

Open Windows 8 Control Panel > General > Setting > Refresh.

If your PC isn’t running well, you can reload Windows without losing your media and personal files

Reset Your PC in Widows 8

Windows 8 will also allow you to carry out a Complete Reset. This will restore your PC to its virgin state, viz to the state it was in when originally purchased.

To carry out this complete reset:

Open Windows 8 Control Panel > General > Setting > Reset.

If you are about to give your PC away, you can put it bcak to the way it was originally and remove your files.

ADVANCED RESET OPTIONS IN WINDOWS 8

Offers System Restore, System Image Recover, Automatic Repair and Command Prompt options. You can create a reset disk, which is great for power users who have invested time to personalize and configure their PC. You can now restore from USB Key or from a thumb drive, thereby saving space and giving you a convenient backup tool in the event that your hard drive is damaged and needs to be replaced.

Go here to learn in detail how to repair Windows 8.

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Anand aka HappyAndyK is an end-user Windows enthusiast, a Microsoft MVP in Windows Desktop Experience since 2007, and the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, TheGeeksClub.com & WinVistaClub.com. Creating a System Restore Point before trying out a new software or a tweak is always recommended.

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  • Jim

    So other than the name change for these features….what exactly has changed?

    The “Refresh” option is just an improved/modified version of the “System Resore” function that has existed sense Windows XP. Unfortunately, it will likely be just as vulnerable to viruses and Trogens as it’s preissesor.

    The “Reset” option does exactly the same thing as the Restore Media/Partition that ALL OEMs currently suppy.

    Methods to resore from “restet” disk have also existed for some time and ways to use USB media are also pretty common.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mick-Vernon/100002916136091 Mick Vernon

    No, the basic reset returns the (system) registry entries and all of the system files back to their original state when the system was installed. It leaves everything else alone.

    The advanced reset completely returns the drive back to when it was first installed; removing everything else.

    That’s not Windows XP and the only way you get any of that with Acronis or Paragon is if you created an image just after you installed the system. There IS a freeware called RefreshPC by xp-smoker.com which returns the basic system registry back to factory settings but it does nothing for system files. SFC attempts to restore system files but it works differently than Win8 and it doesn’t work all the time.

  • Jim

    Like I said…”improved/modified version” of existing features. Not new…just improved.