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If you're having issues with your PC, the following table can help you decide which recovery option to utilize.

Problem	Meet this section
Your PC isn't working well and you recently installed an update	Remove an installed Windows update
Your PC isn't working well and it'southward been a while since you installed an app or changed system settings	Reset your PC
Your PC won't start or is still loading	Use the Startup Repair office
Your PC won't start, you haven't created a recovery drive, and resetting your PC didn't work	Utilise installation media to reinstall Windows 11
Your PC won't showtime and yous oasis't created a recovery drive	Use installation media to restore your PC
Your PC won't first and y'all've created a recovery drive	Use a recovery drive to restore or recover your PC
Yous want to reinstall your previous operating system	Go dorsum to your previous version of Windows
Your PC isn't working well and y'all recently installed an app	Restore from a organisation restore bespeak
You lot suspect your device has been infected	Use installation media to reinstall Windows 11

Click one of the recovery options below and follow the steps to try to get things working once again.

If you've recently installed a Windows update, uninstall the update to try to resolve the upshot.

1. SelectGet-go >Settings >Windows Update >Update history >Uninstall updates .
   View update history

2. On the listing that appears, select update y'all want to remove, and and so selectUninstall.

Important:If y'all've encrypted your device, you'll demand your BitLocker key to reset your PC If you don't know your BitLocker key, see Find my BitLocker recovery key.

Resetting reinstalls Windows xi, just lets you choose whether to keep your files or remove them, and and then reinstalls Windows. You can reset your PC from Settings, the sign-in screen, or by using a recovery drive or installation media.

Reset your PC from Settings

1. Select Start >Settings > Organization > Recovery .
   Open Recovery settings

2. Side by side toReset this PC , select Reset PC. Then cull from the options and/or settings in the table below.

Selection	What it does
Proceed my files > Change settings > Preinstalled apps On	Reinstalls Windows xi and keeps your personal files. Removes apps you lot installed. Removes changes you made to settings. Restores any apps your PC manufacturer installed.
Continue my files > Change settings > Preinstalled apps Off	Reinstalls Windows 11 and keeps your personal files. Removes apps you installed. Removes changes you made to settings. Removes whatever apps your PC manufacturer installed.
Remove everything	Reinstalls Windows 11 and removes your personal files. Removes apps you installed. Removes changes you made to settings. Removes whatever apps your PC manufacturer installed. Note: Remove everything > Modify settings gives you two options. Information erasure On removes files and cleans the bulldoze. If you're planning to donate, recycle, or sell your PC, use this pick. This might accept an hour or two, only it makes information technology harder for other people to recover files y'all've removed. Information erasure Off but removes files. It takes less fourth dimension, but is less secure.

Reset your PC from the sign-in screen

If you can't open up Settings, yous can reset your PC from the sign-in screen. Here's how:

1. Printing Windows logo key + 50 to become to the sign-in screen. Then restart your PC by pressing the Shift key while you select the Power push button > Restart .

2. Your PC will restart in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) surround.

3. On theChoose an option screen, select Troubleshoot > Reset this PC, and and so choose one of the options in the previous table.

   

Startup Repair helps you set up common issues that can forbid Windows from starting upward.

Annotation:If you've encrypted your device, you lot'll need your BitLocker key to start in prophylactic mode.

First, you demand to enter the Windows Recovery Environment (winRE). To exercise this, you volition repeatedly turn your device off, then on:

1. Hold downward the power button for x seconds to turn off your device.

2. Printing the ability button again to plow on your device.

3. On the offset sign that Windows has started (for case, some devices testify the manufacturer'due south logo when restarting) hold downwards the power button for 10 seconds to turn off your device.

4. Press the power button again to plough on your device.

5. When Windows starts again, concur down the power button for x seconds to turn off your device.

6. Press the power button over again to turn on your device.

7. This time, permit your device to fully showtime upwards.

8. Select Avant-garde options.
   

9. At present that you're in winRE, on the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Repair > Restart.
   
   

Annotation:If you suspect that your device has been infected, make sure that your antivirus software is up to appointment. You can also reinstall Windows completely by starting your device using the installation media and performing a clean installation of Windows.

To reinstall Windows xi while Windows is running:

1. Connect the installation media you created to your PC.

2. Open File Explorer  and select the drive with the installation media.

3. From the root directory of the bulldoze, double-click setup.exe, and and so select Aye when asked if you'd like to permit the app to brand changes to your device.

4. Select Change what to keep.

5. Select i of the post-obit options, and then select Adjacent:

   • Keep personal files and apps – This volition preserve your personal data, apps, and settings.

   • Keep personal files only – This will preserve your personal data and settings, but all your apps will be removed.

   • Go along nix – This volition remove all personal data, settings, and apps.

   Warning:You cannot undo a reinstallation of Windows 10. Be sure to support your files first if you cull the Keep nothingpick.

6. To finish, select Install to start reinstalling Windows 11 on your PC.

Your PC will restart several times during the reinstallation.

To reinstall Windows xi past starting your PC using installation media:

1. Connect the installation media you created to your PC.

2. Start your PC using the installation media.

   Note:Check with the PC manufacturer on how to offset the PC using media.

3. When Windows Setup starts, select Side by side and then Install now.

4. If y'all take a Windows eleven product key, enter it when prompted. Otherwise, select I don't have a product key.

5. If prompted, select a Windows edition (e.g. Dwelling, Pro) to install so selectNext.

6. When prompted to choose a blazon of installation, select Custom: Install Windows merely (advanced).

7. Select the disk or sectionalization to which Windows eleven should exist installed.

   Note:If you suspect that your PC has been infected, consider deleting the existing partitions and reinstalling Windows 11 onto a clean disk. Your information on any deleted partitions will exist lost.

8. Select Next to starting time reinstalling Windows 11 on your PC.

Your PC will restart several times during the reinstallation.

Important:If y'all've encrypted your device, you'll need your BitLocker fundamental to apply a recovery drive to restore or reset your PC If you don't know your BitLocker primal, come across Observe my BitLocker recovery fundamental.

If your PC won't beginning and you haven't created a recovery bulldoze, download installation media and employ it to restore from a system restore point or reset your PC.

1. On a working PC, go to the Microsoft software download website.

2. Download the Windows eleven media creation tool then run information technology.

3. Select Create installation media for another PC.

4. Choose a language, edition, and architecture (64-fleck or 32-bit).

5. Follow the steps to create installation media, then select End.

6. Connect the installation media you created to your nonfunctional PC, and so plow it on.

7. On the initial setup screen, enter your language and other preferences, and then select Next. If yous don't run into the setup screen, your PC might not be set up to kick from a drive. Check your PC manufacturer'south website for info on how to change your PC's kick order, and and then try once more.

8. Select Repair your reckoner.

9. On the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot. From there, you tin:

   • Restore from a organisation restore point by selecting Avant-garde options > System Restore. This will remove recently installed apps, drivers, and updates that might be causing your PC problems. Restoring from a restore point won't affect your personal files.

Important:If you've encrypted your device, y'all'll need your BitLocker key to use a recovery bulldoze to restore or reset your PC If you don't know your BitLocker cardinal, see Detect my BitLocker recovery key.

If your PC won't start, you can use a recovery bulldoze to restore from a organisation restore signal or recover your PC. For info on how to create a recovery drive on a working PC, run across Create a recovery drive.

To restore or recover using the recovery drive:

1. Connect the recovery drive and plough on your PC.

2. PressWindows logo key + L to get to the sign-in screen, and then restart your PC by pressing the Shift key while you lot select the Power push button > Restart .

3. Your PC volition restart in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) environment.

4. On the Cull an option screen, select Troubleshoot, and then select one of the following two options. (If yous don't encounter the Choose your option screen, your PC might not exist set to kick from a drive. Check your PC manufacturer's website for info on how to alter your PC'due south boot order.)

• To restore from a system restore signal, selectAvant-garde Options > Arrangement Restore. This won't affect your personal files, but it will remove recently installed apps, drivers, and updates that might exist causing your PC bug.

• To reinstall Windows 11, selectAvant-garde Options >Recover from a drive. This will remove your personal files, apps and drivers you lot installed, and changes you made to settings.

For a limited time after upgrading to Windows eleven, you lot'll be able to go back to your previous version of Windows by selecting Kickoff >Settings > Organisation > Recovery . Adjacent to Go back , select Go dorsum. This volition go on your personal files, simply it'll remove apps and drivers installed after the upgrade, too as whatsoever changes you made to settings. In almost cases, you'll have 10 days to go back.
Open Recovery settings

To go dorsum, you'll need to:

• Go along everything in the windows.old and $windows.~bt folders later on the upgrade.

• Remove any user accounts you added subsequently the upgrade.

• Have the USB drive you used to upgrade to Windows 11 (if you used one).

Note:The selection in Settings to get dorsum to your previous version of Windows is only bachelor for a express time after upgrading.

Info for Windows Insiders

If yous're an Insider and the electric current preview build isn't working for yous, select Start >Settings > System > Recovery . Next toGo back , select Get back. This won't remove your personal files, but information technology'll remove recently installed apps and drivers, and alter settings dorsum to their defaults.

Going back to an earlier build won't remove yous from the Insider Program. When the next preview build is fix, it'll exist installed on your PC.

This option takes your PC back to an earlier point in fourth dimension, called a system restore point. Restore points are generated when y'all install a new app or driver, and when you create a restore point manually. Restoring won't affect your personal files, simply information technology will remove apps, drivers, and updates installed afterwards the restore point was fabricated.

1. In the search box on the taskbar, type command panel, and and then choose it from the list of results

2. In the Control Console search box, type recovery.

3. SelectRecovery>Open System Restore.

4. In the Restore system files and settings box, select Adjacent.

5. Select the restore point that you want to use in the list of results, and then select Scan for affected programs.

   Notes:

   • If you don't see the restore betoken that you want to use, select the Bear witness more restore points bank check box to see more restore points.

   • If you're non seeing any restore points, it might be because system protection isn't turned on. Here's how to check:

     1. In the search box on the taskbar, type control panel, and and then choose it from the listing of results.

     2. In the Control Panel search box, type recovery.

     3. Select Recovery > Configure System Restore > Configure and come across if thePlough on system protection option is selected.

        • If the Plough on system protection option is non selected, system protection isn't turned on and at that place aren't any restore points. In this scenario, you won't be able to recovery your PC using a arrangement restore point and will demand to use one of the other recovery options listed on this folio.

        • If the Turn on system protection option is selected, keep with step 6.

6. You'll see a list of items that will be deleted if you remove this restore point. If yous're OK with the deletions, select Shut> Side by side > Finish.

If you're having bug with your PC, the post-obit table can help yous decide which recovery option to utilize.

Problem	Come across this section
Your PC isn't working well and you recently installed an update.	Remove an installed Windows update
Your PC isn't working well and information technology's been a while since you installed an app or changed system settings.	Reset your PC
Your PC won't start or is still loading	Utilise the Startup Repair part
Your PC won't start, you lot haven't created a recovery bulldoze, and resetting your PC didn't work.	Apply installation media to reinstall Windows 10
Your PC won't start and you haven't created a recovery drive.	Apply installation media to restore your PC
Your PC won't starting time and y'all've created a recovery drive.	Utilize a recovery drive to restore or recover your PC
You lot want to reinstall your previous operating system.	Go back to your previous version of Windows
Your PC isn't working well and you recently installed an app.	Restore from a system restore point
Y'all suspect your device has been infected.	Use installation media to reinstall Windows 10

Click one of the recovery options below and follow the steps to try to get things working once again.

If you lot've recently installed a Windows update, uninstall the update to try to resolve the issue.

1. Select theStart  push button, and so selectSettings>Update & Security >Windows Update > View your update history> Uninstall updates.
   View update history settings

2. Right-click the update y'all want to remove, and and so selectUninstall.

Important:If you've encrypted your device, you'll need your BitLocker key to reset your PC If yous don't know your BitLocker key, encounter Find my BitLocker recovery primal.

Resetting reinstalls Windows 10, but lets yous choose whether to continue your files or remove them, and then reinstalls Windows. You can reset your PC from Settings, the sign-in screen, or past using a recovery drive or installation media.

Reset your PC from Settings

1. Select the Offset  button, then select Settings > Update & Security > Recovery .
   Open Recovery settings

2. Nether Reset this PC,select Get started and then choose from the options and/or settings in the table beneath.

Option	What it does
Keep my files > Change settings > Preinstalled apps On	Reinstalls Windows x and keeps your personal files. Removes apps y'all installed. Removes changes you made to settings. Restores whatsoever apps your PC manufacturer installed.
Keep my files > Change settings > Preinstalled apps Off	Reinstalls Windows 10 and keeps your personal files. Removes apps yous installed. Removes changes you made to settings. Removes whatsoever apps your PC manufacturer installed.
Remove everything	Reinstalls Windows ten and removes your personal files. Removes apps you installed. Removes changes you made to settings. Removes any apps your PC manufacturer installed. Note: Remove everything > Change settings gives y'all two options. Information erasure On removes files and cleans the drive. If you lot're planning to donate, recycle, or sell your PC, use this pick. This might take an 60 minutes or two, but it makes information technology harder for other people to recover files you've removed. Information erasure Off only removes files. It takes less time, only is less secure.

Reset your PC from the sign-in screen

If you tin't open Settings, you can reset your PC from the sign-in screen. Here'due south how:

1. Printing Windows logo key + L to get to the sign-in screen, so restart your PC by pressing the Shift cardinal while you lot select the Ability  push button > Restart in the lower-correct corner of the screen.

2. Your PC will restart in the Windows Recovery Surround (WinRE) surround.

3. On theChoose an selection screen, select Troubleshoot > Reset this PC, and and then choose ane of the options in the previous table.

   

Startup Repair helps you ready common problems that can preclude Windows from starting up.

Note:If you've encrypted your device, y'all'll demand your BitLocker key to start in prophylactic mode.

First, yous need to enter the Windows Recovery Environment (winRE). To do this, you will repeatedly plough your device off, and then on:

1. Hold down the power button for ten seconds to plough off your device.

2. Press the power push button again to turn on your device.

3. On the kickoff sign that Windows has started (for instance, some devices evidence the manufacturer's logo when restarting) hold down the power button for 10 seconds to plow off your device.

4. Press the power push once again to plough on your device.

5. When Windows starts once more, hold down the power button for 10 seconds to plough off your device.

6. Press the power button again to turn on your device.

7. This time, allow your device to fully start upwardly.

8. Select Advanced options.
   

9. Now that yous're in winRE, on the Choose an pick screen, select Troubleshoot > Avant-garde options > Startup Repair > Restart.
   
   

Note:If you doubtable that your device has been infected, brand sure that your antivirus software is up to date. Y'all tin as well reinstall Windows completely by starting your device using the installation media and performing a make clean installation of Windows.

To reinstall Windows 10 while Windows is running:

1. Connect the installation media yous created to your PC.

2. Open up File Explorer  and select the drive with the installation media.

3. From the root directory of the drive, double-click setup.exe, and then select Yes when asked if y'all'd like to allow the app to brand changes to your device.

4. Select Change what to keep.

5. Select one of the following options, and so select Next:

   • Keep personal files and apps – This will preserve your personal information, apps, and settings.

   • Go on personal files only – This will preserve your personal information and settings, simply all your apps will be removed.

   • Keep nothing – This will remove all personal data, settings, and apps.

   Alarm:You lot cannot undo a reinstallation of Windows 10. Be sure to support your files commencement if you choose the Keep nothing choice.

6. To stop, select Install to start reinstalling Windows ten on your PC.

Your PC will restart several times during the reinstallation.

To reinstall Windows 10 by starting your PC using installation media:

1. Connect the installation media you created to your PC.

2. Beginning your PC using the installation media.

   Note:Check with the PC manufacturer on how to start the PC using media.

3. When Windows Setup starts, select Adjacent and then Install now.

4. If yous accept a Windows 10 product key, enter information technology when prompted. Otherwise, select I don't have a production primal.

5. If prompted, select a Windows edition (e.g. Abode, Pro) to install so selectNext.

6. When prompted to choose a type of installation, select Custom: Install Windows only (avant-garde).

7. Select the disk or partition to which Windows 10 should be installed.

   Note:If y'all doubtable that your PC has been infected, consider deleting the existing partitions and reinstalling Windows 10 onto a clean deejay. Your information on any deleted partitions will be lost.

8. Select Next to outset reinstalling Windows ten on your PC.

Your PC will restart several times during the reinstallation.

Important:If you lot've encrypted your device, you'll need your BitLocker key to use a recovery drive to restore or reset your PC If you don't know your BitLocker primal, see Discover my BitLocker recovery cardinal.

If your PC won't start and you haven't created a recovery drive, download installation media and use it to restore from a organization restore indicate or reset your PC.

1. On a working PC, go to the Microsoft software download website.

2. Download the Windows 10 media cosmos tool then run it.

3. Select Create installation media for another PC.

4. Choose a language, edition, and compages (64-bit or 32-scrap).

5. Follow the steps to create installation media, and and so select Terminate.

6. Connect the installation media yous created to your nonfunctional PC, and so turn it on.

7. On the initial setup screen, enter your linguistic communication and other preferences, and then select Next. If you don't see the setup screen, your PC might non be fix to boot from a bulldoze. Cheque your PC manufacturer'south website for info on how to change your PC'south boot order, and then try again.

8. Select Repair your calculator.

9. On the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot. From there, you can:

   • Restore from a organization restore point by selecting Advanced options > System Restore. This will remove recently installed apps, drivers, and updates that might be causing your PC bug. Restoring from a restore signal won't bear on your personal files.

Important:If you've encrypted your device, y'all'll need your BitLocker key to use a recovery drive to restore or reset your PC If yous don't know your BitLocker central, see Find my BitLocker recovery primal.

If your PC won't start, yous can use a recovery drive to restore from a arrangement restore signal or recover your PC. For info on how to create a recovery drive on a working PC, run across Create a recovery drive.

To restore or recover using the recovery drive:

1. Connect the recovery drive and turn on your PC.

2. PressWindows logo key + Fifty to get to the sign-in screen, and then restart your PC by pressing the Shift primal while you select the Ability button> Restart in the lower-right corner of the screen.

3. Your PC will restart in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) environment.

4. On the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot, and then select one of the following two options. (If yous don't run across the Choose your selection screen, your PC might not exist set to boot from a drive. Bank check your PC manufacturer'southward website for info on how to change your PC's boot order.)

• To restore from a arrangement restore point, selectAdvanced Options > System Restore. This won't bear on your personal files, but it volition remove recently installed apps, drivers, and updates that might be causing your PC problems.

• To reinstall Windows 10, selectAdvanced Options >Recover from a drive. This will remove your personal files, apps and drivers you installed, and changes y'all made to settings.

For a limited time after upgrading to Windows 10, you lot'll be able to go back to your previous version of Windows by selecting the Start  button, then selectSettings > Update & Security  > Recovery and so selecting Become startedunder Get back to the previous version of Windows 10. This will keep your personal files, but it'll remove apps and drivers installed after the upgrade, too as whatever changes yous made to settings. In most cases, you'll accept 10 days to go back.
Open Recovery settings

To go back, yous'll demand to:

• Keep everything in the windows.erstwhile and $windows.~bt folders after the upgrade.

• Remove any user accounts you added subsequently the upgrade.

• Know the password y'all used to sign in to Windows seven or Windows 8.1 (if you used one).

• Have the USB drive you lot used to upgrade to Windows 10 (if you used ane).

Notation:If you go dorsum to Windows 8.1, some apps that came with Windows, similar Mail service and People, might not piece of work anymore. To set up the apps, reinstall them from the Microsoft Store.

Note:The option in Settings to become back to your previous version of Windows is simply available for a limited time after upgrading.

Info for Windows Insiders

If you're an Insider and the current preview build isn't working for you, select the Commencement  button, then selectSettings > Update & Security  > Recovery . UnderBecome dorsum to the previous version of Windows 10, select Get Started. This won't remove your personal files, but information technology'll remove recently installed apps and drivers, and modify settings dorsum to their defaults.

Going back to an before build won't remove you from the Insider Programme. When the next preview build is ready, it'll be installed on your PC.

This selection takes your PC back to an earlier signal in fourth dimension, called a system restore point. Restore points are generated when y'all install a new app or driver, and when you create a restore signal manually. Restoring won't touch on your personal files, but it will remove apps, drivers, and updates installed after the restore betoken was made.

1. In the search box on the taskbar, blazon command panel, then choose it from the list of results

2. In the Control Panel search box, type recovery.

3. SelectRecovery >Open System Restore.

4. In the Restore system files and setting box, select Next.

5. Select the restore point that y'all desire to utilise in the list of results, and and then select Scan for affected programs.

   Notes:

   • If you don't run across the restore indicate that you want to use, select the Show more restore points check box to see more restore points.

   • If you're not seeing any restore points, it might be because organization protection isn't turned on. Here's how to bank check:

     1. In the search box on the taskbar, type control panel, and and then cull it from the listing of results.

     2. In the Control Panel search box, type recovery.

     3. Select Recovery > Configure System Restore > Configure and see if theTurn on system protection option is selected.

        • If the Turn on system protection option is non selected, organisation protection isn't turned on and there aren't any restore points. In this scenario, you won't be able to recovery your PC using a system restore signal and will need to employ i of the other recovery options listed on this page.

        • If the Turn on arrangement protection option is selected, continue with step vi.

6. You lot'll see a list of items that volition be deleted if you remove this restore bespeak. If you're OK with the deletions, select Close> Adjacent > Stop.

If yous're having issues with your PC, you can:

• Refresh your PC to reinstall Windows and go along your personal files and settings. Refresh as well keeps the apps that came with your PC and the apps y'all installed from the Microsoft Store.

• Reset your PC to reinstall Windows but delete your files, settings, and apps—except for the apps that came with your PC.

• Restore your PC to undo recent system changes you've made.

If you're having problem starting (booting) your PC, run across Windows Startup Settings (including safe mode), and get to the "Get to Windows Startup Settings in the Windows Recovery Environment" section. You tin refresh, reset, or restore your PC from the Windows Recovery Surround.

If yous want to back upward and restore your personal files using File History, come across Set upwards a drive for File History.

Before you start to refresh or reset your PC

In nearly cases, once yous starting time to refresh or reset your PC, information technology'll finish on its own. Even so, if Windows needs missing files, y'all'll be asked to insert recovery media, which is typically on a DVD disc or thumb drive. If that happens, what y'all'll need depends on your PC.

If your PC came with Windows 8.1 or Windows RT eight.1, you'll demand the discs or pollex drive that came with your PC. Cheque the info that came with your PC to run into if your PC manufacturer provided these discs or media. In some cases, you might have created them when y'all first prepare your PC.

If you don't have either of those, you can make them if you have a USB pollex drive of 16 GB or larger. Having a recovery drive tin assist yous troubleshoot and fix problems with your PC, even if it won't commencement. For more info, see Create a USB recovery drive.

If you upgraded your PC to Windows 8.1 or Windows RT viii.1 with a DVD, employ that disc. If y'all don't have Windows 8.ane or Windows RT 8.1 media, contact Microsoft Back up.

Refresh, reset, or restore

Select any of the post-obit for more detailed info.

If your PC isn't performing besides as it once did, and yous don't know why, you tin can refresh your PC without deleting any of your personal files or irresolute your settings.

Notation:If yous upgraded your PC from Windows viii to Windows eight.1 and your PC has a Windows 8 recovery partition, refreshing your PC will restore Windows eight. Y'all'll demand to upgrade to Windows viii.ane after the refresh has finished.

Alert:Apps you installed from websites and DVDs will be removed. Apps that came with your PC and apps y'all installed from Microsoft Store will be reinstalled. Windows puts a listing of removed apps on your desktop later refreshing your PC.

To refresh your PC

1. Swipe in from the correct edge of the screen, tap Settings, and then tap Change PC settings.
   (If you're using a mouse, signal to the upper-correct corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer downwards, selectSettings, and so select Alter PC settings.)

2. Tap or select Update and recovery, and so tap or select Recovery.

3. Nether Refresh your PC without affecting your files, tap or select Get started.

4. Follow the instructions on the screen.

If you want to recycle your PC, give it away, or start over with it, you can reset information technology completely. This removes everything and reinstalls Windows.

Note:If you upgraded your PC from Windows 8 to Windows eight.ane and your PC has a Windows 8 recovery partition, resetting your PC volition restore Windows eight. You'll need to upgrade to Windows 8.one later the reset has finished.

Warning:All of your personal files will be deleted and your settings will be reset. All apps that yous installed will be removed. Only apps that came with your PC will exist reinstalled.

To reset your PC

1. Swipe in from the correct border of the screen, tap Settings, and and so tap Modify PC settings.
   (If you're using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, motility the mouse pointer down, select Settings, and then select Modify PC settings.)

2. Tap or select Update and recovery, and so tap or select Recovery.

3. Under Remove everything and reinstall Windows, tap or select Go started.

4. Follow the instructions on the screen.

Note:Y'all'll be asked to choose whether you desire to erase data apace or thoroughly. If you lot choose to erase data chop-chop, some data might be recoverable using special software. If y'all choose to erase data thoroughly, this will have longer but it makes recovering information less likely.

If you think an app or driver that you recently installed caused problems with your PC, yous tin can restore Windows back to an earlier point in time, called a restore indicate. System Restore doesn't change your personal files, simply it might remove recently installed apps and drivers.

Notes:

• System Restore isn't available for Windows RT 8.1.

• Windows automatically creates a restore signal when y'all install desktop apps and new Windows updates, if the final restore point is older than vii days. You tin can also create a restore point manually at whatever time.

To restore your PC to an earlier point in fourth dimension

1. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, so tap Search.
   (If you lot're using a mouse, point to the upper-correct corner of the screen, motility the mouse pointer downward, and so select Search.)

2. Enter Control Console in the search box, and tap or select Control Panel.

3. Enter Recovery in the Control Console search box, and then tap or select Recovery.

4. Tap or select Open System Restore and so follow the instructions.

If you need additional aid refreshing, resetting, or restoring your PC, check out the Repair and Recovery community pages in the Windows forum for solutions that other people accept plant for problems they've experienced.

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Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/recovery-options-in-windows-31ce2444-7de3-818c-d626-e3b5a3024da5

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