Restoring your PC before selling it or to improve its performance is very easy by following these steps

When selling your PC, giving it away to a friend or relative, or simply to do a clean installation, one of the essential steps is to go through the more or less tedious step of equipment restoration It is also a good option if we encounter operating problems and want to cut our losses.

We may be before the most drastic solution but it is also the most effective that we have at hand. A process to, on the one hand, eliminate operating problems, cleanse our PC (tablet or smartphone) from personal files and incidentally eliminate junk and thus optimize performanceA process that nonetheless offers several ways that we will now see.

Initially we start from the base that we have the equipment updated with the latest released patches and we want to leave it clean but, how to restore Windows 10 on our PC to solve problems and Step to make our operating system like new? We are going to learn to restore our equipment or what is the same,do a _hard reset_.

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To do this we are going to go to the route Settings > Update and security and once inside we will look for the option called Recovery. "

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On the right side we will see the information in the section Reset this PC and if we are determined to take the step we only have to _click_ on the Get Started button."

This is the step to open a new window and start a wizard that shows us different restoration options. Specifically, it shows two options:

• Keep my files: This option can be interesting if for some reason you have not been able to perform a previous _backup_, although and as always we recommend, the ideal is to have a backup copy of our personal files.

• Remove All: This is the most drastic option but also the most effective. Leave the computer as fresh out of the box and the precaution to highlight is the one related to the version of Windows that we have without at some point we have updated.

Remove all

In this case the system will offer us two ways, a fast method or the slow method.

• Quick method, remove only my files Faster but less secure, as the files are not completely deleted, but simply se Old files could be recovered with the right tools, so it is not ideal if we are going to sell our equipment.

• Slow method, remove files and clean drive. The deletion is total and the deleted files are practically unrecoverable. Of course, arm yourself with patience, because the time will always depend on the size of your hard drive.

Once one or the other is chosen, the system will inform us of the content that is going to be deleted and will start the process after a reboot. It may offer this warning if we have more than one unit.

The process can last more or less depending on how loaded we have the hard drive, whether it is HDD or SSD and in general the power of our equipment. A process in which we will not have to intervene at all until further order on the screen.

Keep my files

If, on the other hand, we opt for the first method, the one that maintains our files, we must know that personal data in the form of files and files will be saved, but we will lose all applications downloaded and installed afterwards.

If we have downloaded these from the Microsoft Store just access the application store, log in with our account, with the that we bought them and reinstall them. Whether they were free or purchased, they are all registered in our account.

If, on the other hand, the applications do not come from the Microsoft store, the process can become somewhat more tedious depending on the origin of the application in question. In this sense, it is interesting to have a list of installed applications and also install them as needed and depending on the utility that we are going to give them.

A good method to get rid of the applications that we gradually install and then rarely use. A system to improve the performance of the computer by eliminating apps that consume resources in the form of RAM and battery.

Different ways that will allow us to enjoy our PC like the first day, leaving it as good as when we took it out of the box or much cleaner than we have it past time.Three methods among which we can choose the one that best suits our interests.