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How To Perform a Hard Reset in Windows 8


Mar 30, 2012 03:21 PM EDT by David Cogen  

Sometimes you just have to undo everything and start over, particularly on your computer. Luckily, Microsoft has made it quite easy to reset your WIndows 8 system without having to completely reinstall the OS. Here’s how.

1. Hover your mouse over the right top (or right bottom) corner of your screen to bring up the Charms menu.

2. Select Settings.

3. Select More PC Settings at the bottom.

4. Select General then select either Refresh or Reset.

David Cogen is a Founder/CEO of TheUnlockr.com, the popular site for wireless how tos, reviews, and news. David loves technology and the only thing he loves more than technology is teaching it to others. Check out TheUnlockr.com for all your AndroidiPhoneMeeGo, and Windows Phone how tos.


One Response to “How To Perform a Hard Reset in Windows 8”

  1. ajd Says:

    help,

    im having various problems with windows update, antivirus, …

    and i want to do a reset to to factory settings but i cant!

    ive tried every kind of reset: full, clean up, tried it in safe mode, … nothing works i allways get a message saying theres a problem and that nothing was changed and when i click on solutions nothing happens either…

    ive googled this a million times and there doesnt seem to be anyone with the same issue

    any ideas on how i can do a full reset?

    thanks in advance!

    ps: i dont have a windows 8 cd or a recovery cd or anything like that since i used to be able to reset the normal way described here before

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