factory reset

Hi, Everyone, a friend of mine has had trouble with his laptop recently, he had upgraded it from windows 8 to windows 10 a long time ago and says it has been buggy and running slow ever since, after much messing about I did a factory reset which has taken his system back to windows 8. I am just...

Hey guys so I have Windows 10, and up until about two weeks ago my laptop was running just fine. The desktop will freeze and so will the taskbar on the bottom, I cant click on anything with the mouse. But I can use the windows key and windows key+x and use the arrow keys to navigate around. I...

Hello everyone! I own a Asus Zenbook UX31A that came originaly with Windows 7, that was updated to Windows 10. It has an SSD with a recovery partition and I never messed with the partition table. The laptop is becoming slower so I decided to reset to factory settings (wich I already did a few...

Hello. I have a HP Pro 608 tablet that has many bugs. 1. Most annoying is that the battery icon at the taskbar indicates that the tablet is always plugged. If I disconnect the power adapter, no change with the icon occurs plus there's no change in the screen brightness even if I set it to lower...

I have a system that will not make it past post. The system starts, and then has a black screen that basically reads "disk error" and a mac id. Now, I know that means there is something wrong, so I took the drive and put it in my main system with slightly higher specs. The hard drive worked...

Today i had to do an OS Factory default reset becaus of some issues i was having starting services needed to run a server i had for personal use, the reset worked but then it was too late to notice my mistake, this laptop had a Windows 8.1 rom as Factory and now i'm stuck with Windows 8.1...

Hello, new here and hoping someone can help me please, I bought a Sony VAIO which came with Windows 10 (64) but i really dont like it and want to go back to Windows 7 (32) ...i have been trying to boot the USB installation of 7 but it keeps coming back with 'No OS Found' but i know the 7 boot...

About a week ago I got the Unexpected Store Exception BSOD, the very first BSOD I had gotten in almost two years of owning the computer. Following this, I would frequently get both this and Critical Process Died. I tried every solution I could find online, including uninstalled my antivirus...

Bought a new Surface Pro, charged it up and started on set up. I then got the blank screen and spinning circle. Held the power and volume button down together and it rebooted. That was the first issue. Then when I had created a Microsoft account as advised, I tried to download some apps but...

Hello! I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium edition running on an Asus Laptop, purchased approximately in August 2012. I just restored it to factory settings, erasing all data and installing the original version of Windows. Unfortunately, when I try to run Windows Updates it won't work. The...

A while ago on my windows 7 laptop I wanted to upgrade to windows 8 to see how it was. I don't have the money to afford my own windows 8 copy so my friend sent me a download link of their own to install it. Windows 8 was running well for a long time, I had everything perfect for a month and...

hello, In an effort to renew my wifes desktop, I bought a SSD and installed Win10 on it. Everything is fine. Her factory HDD still has her factory winxp on it. I created a 25Gig partition and moved music etc to the storage partition of the winxp hdd. How do I remove winxp ? so just to...

I've had this problem for months now and I'm at a loss about what to do next. I've ran the Windows Diagnostic Tool- multiple times. No change. I've refreshed my PC. No change. I've just recently reset my laptop back to factory settings and still nothing has changed. Honestly, I don't know...

Hey everyone my laptop's mobo was faulty so I sent it for a repair and they had to factory reset the laptop for some reason so now my laptop is back to Windows 8. I tried updating to 8.1 through Windows Store but it always fail, I tried MediaCreationTool and it fail too so now I have no idea...

I'll try to make this as short as possible. It started with the "free" win 10 upgrade that managed to trash my computer. It did offer to revert to my Win7 and managed to do that. But machine freezes up in anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes. After 3 days of computer hell I finally gave up and opted to...

Hi, My Dell laptop has been misbehaving for a while so I decided the only solution was to do a fresh install. Normally I would nuke it, download the iso from Microsoft and re-install. It seems however that MS have pulled the plug on the downloads for OEM windows 7, but I do still have my...

Tried to restore from windows 10 debacle. Ended up trying to reset to factory settings. Now I'm getting missing OS message. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (HP laptop)

I installed Windows 10 on my laptop a few weeks ago, only to discover that the laptop in question is not compatible with Windows 10 which unfortunately Microsoft forgot to mention when I was offered the free upgrade. I have now done a factory reset to return the computer to Windows 7, but I now...

Yeah, so I want to completely start over because my new PC is being laggy and crap. So I selected the 'Reset' option, to completely remove everything. The option like I was 'recycling' rather than keeping the PC. Just wanted to erase everything from the hard drive. Took about 2 hours, as there...

I was trying to update to windows 8.1. I kept getting an error code so I searched up how to fix the error. Someone recommended to someone else with the problem to uninstall the software distribution folder and it worked for multiple people so I tried it to no avail. Along with multiple other...