Hey YouTube, Daniel here again from TwinBytes with another tip for you.
I've been asked on how to do a system restore of your computer going back to factory settings.
Basically, there's a number of methods you can use for this, so it's
going to be difficult to do that for each model. When it comes to Windows
itself to Windows System Restore point, which have another video on, which I'll
link to down here. You can do it with any hardware, if it's Windows 7 it's gonna be
the same across Dell, HP, whatever the brand name is, it's gonna be the same.
But when it comes to restoring to factory settings that's gonna be a whole other story.
So, this is some basic steps that we can follow depending on the make and model.
The first thing you want to do before you go through a system restore
is to backup all of your data, and write down all the settings. Like for your
email for example. Because once you do a system restore it's gonna wipe out
everything; your data, your programs, your settings. So you'd need to reinstall all your
programs, re-configure them, re-personalize everything and put your data back on.
So make sure you've got everything recorded and backed up what
you need before you do this. To start the process and doing the system restore
you want to hit one of these function keys. So as soon as you use the power
button, start pressing one of these buttons. It may be F8 or it could be F10
11 or 12. You might even have to do Control and then one of the function keys like
Control F11 in some models. If you have to use the F8 key, it will normally give
you the options to do safe mode and one of these things.
One of the options that should appear is, "repair computer". So you click on "repair
computer" and then within those options you'll have another screen shot. Similar
to this here. and you'll be able to see an option hopefully that says
"Restore computer back to factory settings"
Now you select that, follow through the prompts.
It's pretty much completely automated and you're up and running again. If you don't
have that option, then one of the F10, 11, 12 keys should start this process.
Now if none of these options are working for you, chances are you don't
have a system restore partition available to do this, or you do have one
but some things happen to it and that became damaged as well and you're gonna
need to resort back to the original CD or DVD that came with the computer.
If you don't have those disks or you didn't create any one you first got the computer,
you're gonna have to call the manufacturer and order the disks, so that
you can do the process with that. Or just call your local tech expert and maybe
they'll have a disk that they can use that's a generic disk that works with
that license and they can get you up and running. The only difference with that is
it won't recreate the system restore partition, but in a case like this, that
restore partition wasn't any good for you anyway, so it probably doesn't matter
at that point. As long as you're backing up everything regularly you've got all
your data. If you can't back up before doing this process and that's the whole
reason why you're trying to do is system restore you got to pull the hard drive
out, hook it up to another machine like one of my other videos I showed you on
how to do and that will allow you to backup your data. Again, if that's too
much for you you have to get somebody else that has the equipment that can hook it
up and help you out with backing up your data.
Anyway that's it for this tip
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