Refresh your pc windows 8 screenshots

This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Mahesh Babu G. Hi, Thank you for posting your question in Microsoft Community.

To help you suggest more steps to resolve the issue, I would appreciate if you could answer the following questions: 1. Why did you perfrom Refresh? What is the exact issue that you are facing in your computer? Refreshing your PC comes with the advantages that have been mentioned above.

However, in some cases, one or two data might get missing in the process. Now, if you did not back up your files before the refresh, you will need a powerful tool to help you get back those missing files. Today is your day! Why do you ask? Well, a powerful enough tool has been provided for you and it's the Recoverit Data Recovery tool, an application that can scan through hard drives, SD cards, corrupted or damaged systems, crashed systems, and so on, to retrieve files that you may have lost due to one reason or the other.

If you have mistakenly or purposely deleted your files and formatted your hard disk, this app can find the files contained in them and recover them for you.

This app can be used in all the versions of Windows that have been discussed in this article i. Windows 7, 8,8.

It can also retrieve files of different formats of videos, images, audios, zipped files, and other documents. Begin with choosing the location from where your file or data is missing. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search. If you're using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, and then click Search.

Enter Control Panel in the search box, and tap or click Control Panel. Enter Recovery in the Control Panel search box, and then tap or click Recovery. If you need additional help refreshing, resetting, or restoring your PC, check out the Repair and Recovery community pages in the Windows forum for solutions that other people have found for problems they've experienced.

Windows 8. Need more help? Join the discussion. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Once you've made all your selections, you'll see the screen shown in Figure H. If you are refreshing a laptop or tablet, you will want to make sure that it is plugged in and not running on battery because the next phase of the reset takes a while and you don't want the system to shut down in the middle of it.

When you are ready, just click the Reset button and the reset operation will commence immediately. While the reset operation chugs along, you'll see a screen like the one shown in Figure I that indicates the percentage of the operation that is complete. This step will take a few minutes and then the system will reboot again. When it boots back up, you'll see the blue Windows flag logo and the progress indicator will spin, but no message will appear on the screen.

After a few minutes, you'll see the License terms screen, as shown in Figure K. To continue, select the check box and click the Accept button.

Once you accept the license, you'll then go through all the steps in the first-time set up procedure. For example, you'll choose the color scheme and name your computer, as shown in Figure L , choose settings, and establish a connection to your Microsoft account among other housekeeping tasks.

The system will then reboot again and then run through the introductory tutorial. You'll then see the Start Screen and find that you essentially have brand new copy of Windows 8.

I had expected that at some point in the procedure I would have been prompted to enter the 25 character product key, but I wasn't as the system remains activated. In fact, when I went to the Windows Activation tool the activation date is the same date on which I originally installed Windows 8. While I haven't been able to verify this, I have it on good authority that if you had the standard edition of Windows 8 and then upgraded to the Pro version or added Media Center via the Add features to Windows 8 tool, and then run the Reset your PC tool, you will have to enter a Product key and then re-activate the operating system.

Now that you know how the Reset your PC option works, you'll be ready to use it should the need arise. Have you already used Windows 8's Reset your PC tool?

If so, did it work like you expected? As always, if you have comments or information to share about this topic, please take a moment to drop by the TechRepublic Community Forums and let us hear from you.

Greg Shultz is a freelance Technical Writer.