Hi everyone in this article I’m explaining about how to factoryreset a laptop.
Details:
If you need to give your laptop fresh start, we'll tell youhow to factory reset a laptop.
Restoring your laptop to the state it came out of thefactory can be handy for a number of different reasons. Perhaps you're havingproblems with your laptop's performance, a virus or you simply want to sell iton and remove all your programs, files, passwords and other sensitive information.In these situations, a recovery partition is your friend. See also: How tospeed up a computer.
It's a little more difficult than a smartphone or a tabletbut we'll show you how
to do it step by step:
Most laptops don't come with recovery discs any more but ifyours does then this is still a fairly easy way of performing a factory reset.If you didn't get any discs in the box, then there's a good chance your laptophas a recovery partition.
This is a hidden part of the hard drive which safely storesa complete copy of Windows, drivers and extra programs. You can use it returnyour laptop to the exact state it was in the first day you had it - and it willperform just the same, too. This guide will show you how to access and use therecovery partitions to factory reset your laptop.
How to factory reset a laptop:
Step 1: Backup any data which you wish to keep before performing afactory reset.
You will probably want to copy everything from your userfolders, including
documents, photos, music and videos. The factory reset willdelete all these along
with any programs you've installed since you got yourlaptop.
Step 2: Start-up or reboot your laptop.
Step 3: During the start-up process, hit the appropriate F key orkey combination
which we have listed below for your manufacturer.
Note: There is often a small window of opportunity to strikethe key so don't worry if
it takes you a few attempts. We advise pressing thekey multiple times.
- Acer – Alt + F10
- Asus – F9
- Dell/Alienware – F8
- HP – F11
- Lenovo – F11
- MSI – F3
- Samsung – F4
- Sony – F10
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