factory reset

title. i want to reset my computer to when i fist got it. it has windows 7 home premium and is there a download link that i can get to download the OS so it will reset itself?

title. i want to reset my computer to when i fist got it. it has windows 7 home premium and is there a download link that i can get to download the OS so it will reset itself?

Hi all, I'm suffering with the BSoD error for the past few weeks and this often interrupts me in my daily work. I've contact my local service, they said that should be set back to the factory set up. I did it three or four times, nothing's changed, it back again. Please help to solve this...

Over the years, I have gained the desire to revert my computer to factory settings, or rather to the state of a brand new computer with a freshly installed OS. The only problem is that my computer doesn't have any of the convenient services that allow a factory reset to happen internally and...

Allo, My Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203A drive refuses to recognize any sort of media I put within it. I am unsure of when this problem occured (because I rarely use the drive, which begs the question of how in the world can it stop working), but I do know that nothing I have tried has helped me. I've...

Hi all, My sister just got a new laptop with 7, then accidentally installed a friend's version of 7 on top of it, thinking it was Microsoft Office. I'm trying to restore to factory settings so she doesn't lose all the software that came with the computer. I know the recovery partition is on...

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...