hello everyone welcome to another windows 10 tutorial from windowslovers.com
in today's tutorial we'll learn how to factory reset a windows 10 machine so let's get started
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subscribe for more awesome and helpful tutorials so what is factory reset so what you actually mean
by factory resetting a windows 10 machine putting it in simple terms you are basically refreshing
all the windows components and resetting them as they would be in a newly imaged computer
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the video that you like to and why should someone factory reset a windows 10 machine
i personally suggest you to reset your computer at least once a year
the main reason behind this is this improves the overall performance of your system
because over time the operating system can become clunky and as we install new
applications and use it every day this sort of overloads your system resetting your computer
allows you to eliminate this and refreshes your system's overall performance another question
you might have is will you lose your files and applications when you reset your windows machine
this is a query that i personally had when i was trying to reset my computer for the first time
while resetting a computer you basically have two choices before you reset a computer you can either
keep your apps and your files and everything or you can keep just important files that are
on your desktop or documents and remove the applications one thing that i would suggest is
that if you're resetting your computer because of a driver and application issue
you should either do a complete reset where your files and applications or you either
reinstall a fresh copy of windows 10 because when you do a reset and you keep your files
and applications it does not delete or reinstall the drivers and everything and
other major components that a full reset or a complete fresh reinstall of windows 10 does
so to reset a pc go to start click on setting icon there will be update and security
and on the left hand side you should see recovery click on recovery
and under recovery you will see reset this pc
and it says if your pc isn't running well reaching it might help all right click and get started
and now it gives an option to choose the first option is keep my file so it says removes
apps and settings but keeps your personal files the other one is remove everything
which says removes all of your personal files apps and settings so first if you choose keep my files
this will keep all the files in your documents folder or desktop folder but it will remove
any third-party applications that you might have installed
and if you select to remove everything you will do a sort of a fresh installation of windows 10
so i'm gonna go select keep my files and it says getting things ready this one take long
and it says how would you like to reinstall windows all right so either you can download and
reinstall windows again um or we can just choose on local reinstall just click on require install
but if you like to have a latest version of windows or much updated version of windows click
on cloud download it will take more time because it has to download the iso file first before
you actually reset your window so click on local reinstall click on next all right so it says it's
giving you an overview of what you're about to do let's click on reset and as you can see it's not
in status it says preparing and it also says the device will automatically restart so give it some
time and it should reset the pc and now the system is restarting now it's actually resetting the pc
so now the windows installation has been completed so let's go ahead and set this up
enter your password
um and now if i want to open removed apps the application that was removed was microsoft
onedrive so if you had any other applications that were removed you will be listed here
as well so that's how you can reset or factory reset your windows 10 machine
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