▷ How to factory restore windows 10

Computer manufacturers almost always allocate a partition for Windows system recovery on their computers. Especially in laptops we find this partition for when when restoring Windows 10 from the factory, the computer remains as we bought it.

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Restoring Windows 10 from the factory will allow us to have a practically clean operating system and as the factory computer came. In addition, thanks to this option we can also perform the restoration keeping our personal files (those in documents) and our settings.

We can repair system errors without losing the operating system license with new installations or different versions of the operating system.

Backup of drivers of our team

If what we have is a computer mounted by ourselves and without this type of recovery partitions, it could be especially useful to store all the drivers that our equipment has installed so that, after restoring the system without choosing the option to keep files, we have available these drivers to reinstall later.

Among the best applications to do this, the truth is that we will have quite a few options:

These are some alternatives.

Let's see for example how to do this with Driver Magician. It is a paid program but it has a 22-day trial version. For our purpose, it is more than enough.

• We download the file and proceed to its installation. It will be as simple as giving it to " next ". Once installed, we will proceed to execute it. It will ask us if we want to update the driver database. We chose yes. Now we will be shown the entire list of drivers that have our equipment installed.

• If what we want is to make a backup copy of all our drivers, we click on the button " select all " Then click on " Start copy " and select the directory where we want to save these

When the process ends we will already have a backup copy of all our drivers.

We can now proceed to restore Windows 10 from the factory

Factory reset Windows 10

To start the system restoration we will have several options available:

Restore options from configuration panel

The first option we have is accessing the Windows 10 configuration panel.

• For this we go to the start and click on the gear wheel. We will access the Windows configuration panel Now we choose the option " Update and security "

• Now we are on the option " Recovery " from the list of options on the left side In the section " reset this PC " click on " Start "

• We will be shown a window where we can choose whether to keep our files and settings (option 1) and remove everything (option 2). The system explains perfectly what each of the options implies

• After choosing the relevant option, we will be informed of which applications will be eliminated. Finally, we will be given a summary with the procedure that will be carried out

The computer will now begin to reset. The computer will restart and the restore process will begin.

Restore options from the reset button

Another option that we will have at our disposal faster will be through the option to restart the system. We will find this in the start menu and on the lock screen in the shutdown button located in the lower right corner:

• Click on " Start " and on the shutdown button Holding down the " Shift " key on the keyboard, we click on " Restart " We will see a blue screen with a series of optionsWe must choose the " Restore this computer "

• The process will be the same, we choose one of the two options if we want to delete all our files or keep them

The restoration process will begin. Now the computer will restart and finally a blue screen will appear where we will have to confirm that we want to do the restoration.

Restore our team's drivers

In the vast majority of cases, Windows will perfectly detect your computer's drivers and install them automatically. But since we previously backed these up, now is the time to use it.

• Again we installed Driver Magician Now we are located on the tab " restore drivers " and select the directory where we made the backup

• Click on select all, to select the list of drivers Click on " start restoration " to install them

It is possible that errors may occur during the restoration of the drivers due to changes in the system. Remember that these programs are not without errors

This is how we can restore Windows 10 from the factory without any secret.

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As you can see the process is very simple. Why have you decided to restore your equipment? Write to us if you have had any type of problem during the procedure or to restore the drivers.