Instructions to restore Windows 10 to the newly installed state

Windows operating system after a period of use often accumulates a lot of junk software, making it work slowly. For this reason from Windows 8 onwards, Microsoft has integrated a tool to help restore Windows as it was when it was installed.

This is a very useful feature to help the computer operate smoothly, especially for basic users, less tech-savvy or rescue computer. The article guides users to restore Windows 10 because this is currently the most popular computer operating system to replace Windows 7 (How to do on Windows 8 and 8.1 is similar).

Why do you need to restore Windows?

There are many reasons why users should restore Windows computer after a long time of use, including some typical reasons as follows:

- Your computer contains a lot of junk software that you do not use.

- Computer works slowly for unknown reasons.

- The computer has a faulty hardware driver that the user cannot reinstall.

- Computers are infected with adware and have many ads turned on when opening browsers, or being redirected to advertising websites .

Or simply you prefer to use the new Windows

How to restore Windows 10

Thanks to Microsoft's tools, the Windows reset process will become relatively simple, with less errors in the recovery process and no need to use USB rescue. And most importantly, anyone can do it, even for users with little technology knowledge.

Step 1:  Click on the START icon (lower left corner of the screen) → Select SETTING.

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Step 2:  The SETTING window appears. Select UPDATE & SECURITY.

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Step 3:  Select RECOVERY → Select GET STARTED at RESET THIS PC.

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Step 4:  Here, a popup will appear giving you two options:

1. Keep my files:  Erases all applications (apps) and software installed but still keep personal files of the user. (By default, this file is located in the path C: UserUser_Name).
2. Remove everything:  This will wipe files from your applications, software, drivers, and personal documents on the Windows installation partition or the entire hard drive.

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Depending on your needs and you choose the appropriate Reset method. Here choose Keep my file to clean Windows but keep your personal documents. After selecting Windows, it will list the software to be removed. User can NEXT → Then RESET to start. Windows will restart immediately to begin the reinstallation of the operating system.

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The reset speed may depend on the amount of data to be deleted. You only need to wait about 30 minutes to enjoy a clean operating system. For those of you who need a complete Windows cleaning including drivers and files, you can choose Remove everything. This method will be a bit more complicated.

Step 1:  After selecting Remove everything. A popup message will appear as below. You should select Only the drive where Windows is installed. This option will erase the data on the hard drive partition on which Windows is installed. If it is not necessary you  SHOULD NOT  select All Driver, because this method will delete all data on the hard drive, including the installed partition.

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Step 2:  Here Windows will also give you two options:

1. Just remove my file (recommended): This option helps you to quickly delete, which means that you can still use data recovery software to restore it after the deletion is complete.
2. Remove files and clean the drive: Wipe your data and it's very difficult to recover data, the downside of this option is that it takes a long time to delete. This is only useful in the case after resetting the device for others to use.

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Step 3:  Select Just remove my file .  A notification window will appear as shown and you click on the RESET button  to proceed with the recovery process.

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Conclude

Thanks to the support from Microsoft, restoring Windows 10 is extremely easy without adding a USB or rescue CD, users only need to wait a little time to experience the new operating system and have no errors. as before.

Marvin Fry

Update 12 August 2020