You would have to reinstall windows or mac depending on which you have. If you paid for the back-up disks when you bought the computer you can use those, otherwise you will need to get a copy elsewhere.
You can usually perform a factory reset by pressing F8 to get to the restore menu on the computer. This will restore the computer back to factory.
There is a thing called system restore which resets everything on you computer back to factory settings. Or you wipe your hard drive and reinstall your OS (operating system). Better option is to do system restore point which brings your system pretty much back in time to a point where you have not made those changes, but you have to create restore point at that time.
Easy! You just connect to your computer, make a backup, restore to factory settings, restore from backup, password gone!
No - system restore is designed to 'roll back' your computer to a point in time before a problem occurred. It will undo installations, but not restore deleted files.
Hold (Ctrl) whille tapping (F11) at the Dell Start up screen. When it asked for Reboot or Restore, Selecting Restore will return your Dell system to factory settings. Warning there is now going back after the rebuild is started.
System restore puts the computer back to the point it was at at the time a restore point was set. So whatever the display settings were, that is what they will be again.
If you have recently lost your LimeWire files, you can use system restore under the open tab. This will restore your computer to the point where you had the files.
You can restore your computer back to a time when it was not infected. There is no point making a backup of an infected computer. Backups are usually the final solution to many computer infections.
Turn off System Restore, reboot the computer, turn System Restore back on.
To do a system restore back to factory default you will either need the install disk that came with the computer or you will need to access the partition on the hard drive that contains the install files. You need to either boot up the computer with the install CD and follow the prompts. If installing factory defaults from a partition on the hard drive, you will need to find out with function key will get you into repair mode. This key is different for each make and model.
Computers are different so what would restore one may not restores another. It is best to back up all files onto a disc or drive first as this will take the computer back to factory and remove all everything. A majority of computers use holding down F11 while booting to restore.
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