factory reset

Hi All, I am having problems with my daughter's laptop accessing the internet with her wifi, She accidentally reset her laptop back to factory settings. She also didn't make any recovery disks. The problem is now the laptop keeps asking for a network user name/Password when she tries to access...

bought new laptop few days ago and went to factory reset via the recovery partition, it stuffed up few times during instlallation and got few blue screens and was stuck on formatting so i formatted laptop to win xp to burn myself a win7 installer into disc so i did and tried installing via disc...

A lot of generic off-the-shelf PCs don't come with Win 7 install media. Some don't have any restore media at all (relying on hidden hard drive partitions) or have install media that restores the machine to factory conditions. The "factory conditions" just reinstall 3rd-party demos and other...

At least once a day, my wireless router connection gets very weak on my laptop and I lose my Internet access. I also have a netbook on the home network and it always has a great connection. In order to fix the problem, I have to disable my connection -then re-enable it. After that, it runs...

I have a dell inspiron 1521 originally running Vista home premium. Laptop was acting bad, not running properly etc. so I backed up my files and did a factory reset of Vista. All was working well, I had access to nearly all of my 600GB HD. I installed Windows 7 upgrade and downloaded...

I have been getting the blue screen for quite a while now. Also mypc gets stuck in sleep mode and have so much trouble getting it back on. I have windows 7 and updated everything I can think of. Didn't work, so I dumped everything and reset it back to factory settings, still the same. I'm on the...

Hello people! Today i tried to install Mac OS X with EasyBCD, when i rebooted my PC said that there was a chain error. I could only choose Mac OS from the menu. Now iv'ed tried Gparted, ubuntu reinstall of windows. Everything says error!! What to do? i get an software change error when trying to...

So today my laptop could not start up for some reason. I had to make a restore CD from my desktop (also a windows 7) and use it to repair my laptop. After it repaired my laptop, when I log in i get this ODBC32.dll error. This also occurs when i try to run certain programs, how do i repair this...

I was exploring the other day and came across the information shown in the attachment. I am not having any problems, but just wondered what it was for exactly and if there was another way to find or alter the information contained. As you can probably tell, I had a full network map made and...

Hello everyone! System specs: System: Dell Vostro 3550 CPU: Core i7 2.7GHz RAM: 6Gb RAM OS: Win 7 Pro Sp1 64-Bit Problem: System is brand new out of the box. My client asked me to help him setup the notebook and update Windows. After I did the updates and restarted the system, I received...

Hi, i want to re installmy windows , my laptop has WINDOWS 7 HOME installion / repairing files by factory , i have WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE in it now.I want to re install it. how i can re install it. if i use the factory (dell) defualt drive for installing i am afraid that it will become HOME edition...

MrSeb writes "Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, will provide push-button Reset and Refresh in Windows 8. Reset will restore a Windows 8 PC to its stock, fresh-from-the-factory state; Refresh will reinstall Windows 8, but keep your documents and installed Metro apps in tact. For the power users...

Okay I'm fixing my sisters computer, It froze on her, when she tried to start it up again it went into some sort of system repair mode and after about 20hrs of this (no joke) it gave me the option to restore the computer to factory settings, it also gave me the option to install some sort of...

Hi, i was havin probs with my pc DELL isnpiron 17R ,,it was about missing of some storage drivers ,, i contacted a dell agent ; after he viewed the device manger and trying to reinstall them ,, he couldn't and he told me that i've ghost or something in my registery and i need to do a restore to...

Asus K42Dr AMD Athlon II ATI Radeon HD 5470 WIndows 7 Home Premium x64 OEM 2 GB Ram Im having this random BSODs even when doing nothing. Also most of my apps encounters the "has stopped working" error. I tested my memory using Memtest+ with atleast 5 passes and has no errors. I also used the...

I've got this new laptop last month and after two weeks got my first BSOD. I've done chkdsk, sfc, and last know good config only to have it back again every 3 days or so. I don't have restore point far back enough and don't think I've installed anything that could cause this. The driv'ers are...

I am back home for the holidays and brought my desktop back with me that runs Windows 7. After I got it all set up I realized I could not access the internet, and that I was connected to an "Unidentified Network". After looking into it more I found that I was getting a 169.XXX.XX.XX IP, and I...

I have an Acer Aspire. I am wanting to restore it to factory defaults. I have been told to press alt f10 at the Acer start screen to load up the restore wizard. These keys do not work however. I have used MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition to see if the restore partition is there, and it...

Ok, this may be difficult to troubleshoot because I have very few details about the computer in question. A friend called me because I am fairly good with basic computer problems. I'm not sure of the hardware specs, but it's a 2010 or 2011 model PC with Windows 7 installed. They did a Windows...

Dear all, on my new Lenovo T410s Laptop I am facing multiple BSOD (i.e. > 1 per hour) and on top additional freezes/crashes of firefox or the entire system. System is up to date with Bios-updates / windows updates. Things I have tried are (no improvement): - Multiple Resets to factory...