Factory Reset 29 January 2005 at 4:44PM in Techie Stuff 3 replies 569 views

VH

Can anyone please tell me what a 'Factory Reset' is?

PC World have apparently done this to a friend's PC to fix a problem on it.

I'm assuming they are talking about using System Restore in XP to take it back to it's earliest restore point.

Or are they talking about something else?

m00nie

factory reset is basically putting it back to how the pc left the factory/shop.

so anything they have put on it since purchasing would have gone now.

VH

How exactly do you do a Factory Reset in Windows then?

m00nie

a small partition on the hard drive stores the files. you get a floppy disc you need also, some pc,s have this set up.