{"id":10312,"date":"2015-11-15T20:21:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T01:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=10312"},"modified":"2015-11-15T20:21:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T01:21:44","slug":"system-reset-and-refresh-get-married-in-windows-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/system-reset-and-refresh-get-married-in-windows-10-2\/","title":{"rendered":"System Reset and Refresh get married in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

System Reset and Refresh get married in Windows 10<\/h1>\n

In Windows 8x a lot of changes were made and many were not well accepted. However, one generally well-liked feature of Windows 8x was improved in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

In Windows 8x there was a System Refresh and a System Reset and the few people who knew about it were often confused what each did, Refresh, if you remember, reinstalled Windows while keeping your personal files and folders. All you had to do was reinstall your programs and you were ready to go. System Reset wiped out everything and reinstalled Windows – essentially you started from scratch.<\/p>\n

In Windows 10 it\u2019s been simplified. Everything is under \u201cReset this PC\u201d in the Recovery section of \u201cUpdate & Security\u201d. Let\u2019s go there now:<\/p>\n

Click Start \u2014\u2013> Settings \u2014\u2013> Update & Security and click on Recovery in the left pane (see the screenshot below):<\/p>\n

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Click on \u201d Get Stated \u201d (above) and you\u2019ll see the options shown in the image below:<\/p>\n

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If you choose the first option \u201cKeep my files\u201d your personal files and folders will be saved and Windows reinstalled. When this is done, you\u2019ll have all your pictures, music, documents and videos. (NOTE: In screenshot above, \u201cRestore factory settings is listed\u201d it may or may not be listed on your computer. This was a brand new Windows 8.1 laptop that I bought and upgraded to Windows 10 the day I got it. I certainly wouldn\u2019t ever go back to the previous version of Windows (8.1) unless that was my only choice, Windows 8.x and I didn\u2019t get along. EB liked Windows 8.1 a lot more than I did, but then she had a touch screen. See what happens when you\u2019re the boss? You can under pay your help (that would be me) and put the money you save into touch screen computers, cruises, Alpine vacations, and 96\u2033 LED TVs. Woe is me!<\/p>\n

I digress. Let\u2019s click on \u201cKeep my files. You\u2019ll see the warning shown below:<\/p>\n

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Not hard to understand, right? Now the full dialog is shown in the screen shot below:<\/p>\n

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You can see all the programs you\u2019ll have to reinstall when Reset (Keep my files) has completed. Windows will leave a copy of this list on your desktop so it\u2019s there when you\u2019ve booted back into Windows.<\/p>\n

Reinstalling Windows while keeping your personal files and folder is a great feature to have. Most of us can easily reinstall programs, even though it may take some time. But all those precious pictures and documents are irreplaceable as are those home and family videos.<\/p>\n

One more way to recover your PC when all other options fail is Advanced startup (see the lovely screen shot below). Advanced Start Up gives you troubleshooting options, and options to boot from a disc or USB drive. You can also change Windows startup settings (boot into Safe Mode, for example) or use your image backup to restore Windows. If you click the button labeled \u201cRestart now\u201d can you guess what\u2019s going to happen?<\/p>\n

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\nAnd if you just want to book into Advanced startup with all the advanced boot options, just hold down your Shift key while restarting your computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

System Reset and Refresh get married in Windows 10 In Windows 8x a lot of changes were made and many were not well accepted. However, one generally well-liked feature of Windows 8x was improved in Windows 10. In Windows 8x there was a System Refresh and a System Reset and the few people who knew about it were\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10313,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions\/10313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}