Reset your Windows 10 PC and make it like new again
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- čas přidán 24. 02. 2021
- Is your computer running sluggishly and it seems to have lost its pep? Well, you have some options for ways to refresh and reset your Windows 10 PC to make it like new again. We walk you through the process.
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No, my one was really loud and when i first got it, it was really quiet, I think its cuz i just download millions of random stuff
Even I figured that out! Amputation with an axe works well!
3:48 after all this my pc says something went wrong.. please help
My pc is unprotected so bad hackers can take my pc easy and i need to restart it bad
@@Stulker1369 Reset your computer. Anything you want to keep should first be downloaded to a USB ~ as a safeguard. Then download DuckDuckGo for your search engine and Firefox for your browser. Add Privacy Badger. These work well for me, judging from the amount of bitching I get from some websites trying to get in. There are some other additions you could try, but see how you go with those. They're free to download and install. All the best.
Bro I didn’t know that people downloaded viruses on my pc that’s when I came here this time I am not letting no one touch my pc my cousuins so thanks man.
"Hey so uhh I have good and bad news. Good news is, you won a lottery. Bad news is, your computer is acting funny. I don't know what happened." I still die thinking back on it.
Bro what did u choose? Delete everything or delete all but not files pls respond
I backed up my files and deleted everything else
@@Dolthem um, my pc is lagging every 10seconds even I'm just watching yt, my fps in csgo is 60+ but it drops every 10 seconds this is so annoying I would rather play on 20 fps stable. Pls help what should I do 🥺
@@wayne8100 Delete Eveything but noyt your files you don't want to delete
If I could sponsor you in any way, than I would, I have been tinkering for hours and you finally fixed it, thank you from the bottoms of my heart
These tutorials are life savers. Gone are the days that you have to commute or pay for gas to go the service center then pay a tech guy to reformat your PC. This is how computers should be. No one should need to leave their homes to fix their cpu. One needs to be able to fix his cpu at his own convenience.
fix a cpu? In order to fix a cpu (central processing unit) you need to go to a professional
@@angel_withaflamethrower no
yes
@@DontMindRick no
@@AamirK11 yes you do
Thank you! I know these options but you clarified it to make it easier for me! I'm currently wiping off an old computer that has so much junk on it and a reset will totally help.
Thank you for making this video short and straight to the point!
Thanks! I've had my PC for around 5ish years by now, there are so many things my younger self or my parents downloaded that I have no idea what they do anymore and this thing really needs a clean slate lol
You, my friend are beyond the lifesaver. I accidentally deleted stuff on my PC that was necessary, and I thought it wasn't necessary. It's something I downloaded and was something else because I had to free up storage then I realized installers weren't working then I looked through countless of on countless videos you, my friend were the only helpful one.
Omgsh lol , my same problem but yours is better since I missed up lots and I just installed new windows a month ago all of this just cause of annoying virus 😂
I didn't need this but after seeing the 5 minute length, I was intrigued. Well structured video in a short time!
yes it was
Resetting now. This will be like my third time since I’ve gotten my computer but I feel like I haven’t done it fully because I can never get my PC to run quite as good as it did when I got it. Hope this time fixes everything
any updates?
make sure you ram is running at its intended mhz and not 2133. this was my problem for long time. bios reset and was running stock 2133 instead of 3600mhz. to check your current running memory speed open task manager > click performance > click on memory, then on the bottom right should say your running speed.
@@ritchos1788 hey, i just checked mine and its running at 2133, how do i change it the intended mhz
@@okaycope go into your bios upon boot up. look for something called XMP profile and enable it to auto 1
@@ritchos1788 thank you bro, i just did it not long ago
Thank you for this tutorial my drivers are all messed up and my pc is a bit slow it’s good to know I get to keep my files though, I have way too much that I can’t get rid of
Bro you just saved me so muchhh. One day I got a bunch of stuff installed on my laptop, like autoclickers and big games and upgrading to windows 11. Ever since it was so laggy and barely turned on. You saved me lots of money, ty
Things just keep getting easier.
This is way too convenient compared to the old method.
What was the old?
@@elielsolares8695 probably buying a new pc :P
@@elielsolares8695 idk, but maybe it's having a flash driver or cd with Windows and installing it through that, which is still a thing nowadays
@@balintbalogh688 Comparing to manually wiping disks and installing windows.
Bak in like 2014ish I had to do this on my old pc. Was similar but did it in safe mode
Me- why does it take so much time in simply deleting my files
*Microsoft- because it takes time to save all your information in our database
Lol
so true.. win11 cloud install will be checking if you like biden or trump and doing some shady stuff to your pc from now on too.
@@joejackson9312 You joke but....
you need to enumerate through all the files lmoa
Very informative and clear instructions given. This will hopefully guide me through seamless reset. Thanks for your tips.
oh. my. days. thank you so so much, ive been trying to factory reset my pc for so long (over a year) and nothing has worked. i dont know why but this worked perfectly with 0 hassle so thank you so much.
Hey Man, Thanks for the video. 🙏
You really explained all the steps in easy manner and I followed the same.
Before doing this reset it was taking around 10-15 mins to start the laptop and now it looks like the new laptop...❤️
Dang nice. That would have been horrible.
thanks!!! now I'll have more storage space to download things I actually want.
Edit: Btw if you have a problem where you can't find updates and security just go onto windows update then advanced options
then open up recovery and click on reset pc and it will come up with the same two options in the video.
I accidentally deleted everything from my pc 😅 and I didn't know what to do but then I came across this video and it helped so much Thank you!!💗
My brother is moving out soon and leaving me our old PC, keeping this bookmarked, thank you!
This saves me from losing money I can use for my family's food, thank you so much! 💖
tysm! I was giving my pc to my brother and needed to clear my storage, this helped allot!
My old Dell desktop was running very slow. I thought there was molasses in my hard drive. Rebooting would not do it. I went through this process and my Dell seems magically renewed. It is about a 2 hour process followed by reestablishing most of the old favorites and settings.
love that you showed the results of both options! great work!
Thank you. My win 10 is ridiculously slow and needs this reset urgently. I was going to erase the disk completely but this looks like the way to go.
Definitely the way to go.
Why is it after i reformatted or resetted my pc there is no audio? CAn you help me ? Pls
@@carlosmarcial6144 Hi I think you have already fixed your problem but probably you need to reinstall all of your driver's
Did this help your pc run faster?
@@IamYamiiii yes it will . IF your PC is 1 year or older ,it will definitely make it much faster
I did the 'Reset my PC' last night after having my computer BSOD loop after the last 21H1 update. Took about 90 minutes on a NVME M.2 C:\ drive on a PC connected to a 1gb Fiber connection to get it back to working condition again. And I definitely turned on the Restore Point feature after this reset.
Thanks! This is what I was looking for! I'm on fiber with an Intel m.2 nvme.
@@aaroncamren691 SAMEEEEEE
Did it work well and never had problems ever? My pc did this a while ago and now I'm resetting it
Yeah Like DAMN! I did some slim shady type registry stuff and im now gonna have to reset lool
@@christinenicolecerdan1588 yeah, fixed my issue, only took about an hour or so to be completely up and running.
We’re starting school again and I don’t want to buy a tablet which will be expensive. Thank you for this, I can finally use my laptop again!
Fun fact:this is how you remove virus that you accidentaly install from google chrome
Does this work if you accidentally delete something important in the system?
Thats why im using this😢
Thanks! I wanted to give my laptop to a sister and hard clean it, making it brand new. Again, Thanks!
lol
Aw thats so sweet
Did u have to reactivate the windows?
@@ordenwills8442 yes I did
I have an asus laptop wihr pre downloaded software form factory if I reset it will it keep this software?
Straight forward to the point.
Thanks man for your help I didn't know how to reset faster without deleting certain applications
I have an old window PC. I let my brothers install one game they wanted and later they had done much more which caused a lot of viruses. And later they had installed many apps that each would ask me for an update evrry times I loged in. They wanted to make changes into my device, it was pretty annoying. My PC got extremely slow so I had to come here for help!
This was very easy, shirt and fast video.. thank you very much!
Him: make sure your pc is plugged in
Me with a desktop: I’m already 10 perillel universes ahead of you
Parallel numbnuts
Me with a 30 series RTX gpu, 32 gigs of ram, and Ryzen cpu:
Yes, mines plugged in. Same universe, and not all that crazy to have a desktop computer. It’s 2021 not 1994
@@mehmilky lol
And then imagine power cut-off 🤭
It's a meme ffs.
Thank you so much for this
How did i survive so long without this channel
Thanks a lot, i needed this to reset my c drive. No matter how much i try to delete data from c drive, i need permission for every thing!
If your system files are corrupted, then the cloud reset would be better. But since you have no way of knowing that your system files are corrupted, you should always use the cloud reset.
I mean, of course there are possibilities, but we're talking about the normal user here, not someone who enters commands in cmd just to check whether they can do local or not.
I checked and I've some corrupted files, and I want to reset my pc without losing any personal files, would using cloud reset delete any of my files?
@@MO_8 Yes. Cloud and local will reset everything. You need to store all your important files on a USB stick, external hard drive or via a cloud provider such as OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox.
If you do not store your data somewhere separate from your computer, you risk permanently losing all your data at any time.
@@katersaid11 no problem I've a 1T external hard drive, and my files are less than that. Do you know a way import all the files at once; because I'm afraid that I'm going to forget something.
@@MO_8 Not really. But if in doubt, you can make a backup of unnecessary folders and files.
Might be too late now but my pc is stuck at 64% and keeps rebooting.. any tips?
Doing this now. Great advice and easy to follow your instructions, thanks!
how did it go?
@@eylon85 it went great, thanks
just asking but does it remove admin controls too? because im not the admin lol and i'd really want to disable it.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
This is very helpful thank you SOO much!!! Now my computer is clean again!! 😎😎 i had to restart my computer because it was very slow I think I downloaded to many apps and files! 😅
Thank you for this. There was just one issue. There are no shortcuts on my Desktop and I know there should be. It's not a major problem, it just takes a little longer to find something.
@@svilenivanov4696 I'll try that, thank you.
The shortcuts are only there if you place them there
@@MultiColouredVagina I know. I tried but they still don't show.
my laptop is primarly for gaming and i want to reset it to see if that helps with performice as ive noticed a decrease. I dont think i have any important files but what would be considered "important" if that makes sense
this video was so good and helpful, I did it all just looking at the thumbnail
thanks dude my pc was glitching soo much and i thought i had to buy a new one but i saw ur vid :D
Making a home server out of an old PC.
Thanks for the quick and easy tutorial!
Hey there if your making a home server out of an old pc i would recommend getting lunix as its easier to install and its really light so the old hardware wil have no problem on it and you can create a hss server to remote access it with simple commands that take maybe an hour to learn!
Thank you so much for this video. It really helped.
This saved me! For a while my pc hasn't been able to update for months so I tried this and it works again! It was due to "Automatic Repair Couldn't Repair Your PC"
BRO THANK YOU YOU SAVED MY TIME I HAVE A 8GB INTEL i3 prosser my is very slow but after watching this video my pc got 101% performance boost
Thanks. I did this two times after some years. See everyone in the other side, hope this works.
Did it? :) is it better ?
Unfortunately, it didn't even load. But now it is better. Thanks for asking
Very brief, but covers all the relevant options and their details! 👍🙂
thanks alot! informative and to the point. thanks pal!
I got one too many “cool backgrounds” and “driver updates” so this definitely helps.
Great and detailed and helpful thanks
Thanks bro I really need to do this because my mom got it from work and she gave it to me she said I can do whatever I want it but super glitchy
Good luck. 🍀
Thank you. My pc is debloadet and its completly f****d up and your tutorials are life savers bro
Thanks for this video. So useful 🎉
Thank you very much for this helpful video😊 Trying this out now❤
I watched the video but I’m still a little unsure and having issues. I’m selling my gaming pc but want to remove my user and keep preinstalled software and apps that the PC first had when I received it such as AMD software, Audio driver, graphics driver, Microsoft visuals, etc. So that way the person I sell to doesn’t have to go through the hassle of reinstalling everything. However, Is resetting then reinstalling everything all over again the only way of doing this? I don’t really have anything important in my files by the way so I don’t care for backing up anything.
Thank you. This took about 6 hours but thanks for your help :)
wait the resetting process took 6 hours?????
@@reshmimanoj7424 For me. Yes. For others it takes even longer depending how good pc is
Thanks for the tutorial. Do you need to remember or re-renter the Windows 10 product key/code after the reset?
Thank you sir ❤
Love from India 🇮🇳
I’ve had to do this 3 times in the past 5 months. I’ve had so many problems with my PC that seem unfixable. It’s so annoying. But resetting it fixes just about everything. So every new problem I get and I can’t fix it I just reset it and boom. Fixed. Advanced Technology!!
Bubbalubbadubba!
Same..
Might need a new hard drive
How long was the reset time?
Stop watching that smut and you’ll be aiight 😂
i right clicked and saw "share with catch!" in the menu i freaked out and i immediately thought of obliterating the hard drive then i found out its a daemon tools feature i uninstalled it and now im at peace again; still, good video ty!
does this allow you to boot windows from the usb bootable drive like you did when you first built it?
Imagine having 10000 files open could never be me
Perfect!! Thank you for explaining the entire process within 5min.
hi do i still need a windows installer for this to happen?
I lost the option to use my PC password and I tried everything but nothing worked. After I came across a video before this, and this video. Now I know how to reset my pc and I can finally log back in!! This Pc was bought used a couple weeks ago so I didn't have informasjon that I needed!! :)
I have a trojan in my pc and i really needed this thank you!!
Thanks, this helped!
Good to hear
Thank you very much sir, was very helpful for me, god bless you.
lol
Me to I love this mans
No homo
Aameen
@@user-jg1yn9lm2g malayali
Hi, @How To Do it All!
I have a quesiton:
Will enabling 'data erasure' remove the way my secondary HDD's are set up? So, does cleaning the drives completly changes their set up?
i was mega laggy this helped alot you deserve a subcribe and like
Thank you so much for this. My laptop has been driving me crazy but I wasnt sure resetting it completely was gonna be a good idea
Does it keep windows?
@@EthanC_0 yes
@@EthanC_0 no but it like deletes all ur windows files and stuff it deletes every file if you press delete everything it just reinstalls all windows non critical and critical files
September 2, 2022, this method works!
My concern was for some reason i cant manually delete those very big compressed files on my drive d..
I wanna start everything fresh. Like its new. And im okay with that. I wanna delete those unnecessary files esp in drive d..
I proceeded to delete everything. Clean slate...
Just one reminder. On my end, it mentioned about TPS or TPM i think. Just dont change it press ESC as it shows on the screen.
U will do some microsoft setup once it restarted. Like your microsoft account password setup., etc.,
Then...
Wallaaa...
Once inside windows i checked my storage. All is clean slate. That felt good. Bec for years those big files on my drive d, i dont even know what they are🤣...
So yeah, what a relief.
Done.
Ty
Does it removed files from other drives?
Man, you are a life saver! Definitely gonna keep watching your videos
Hey, can I know which option I should choose to retain the preinstalled apps on my computer like the Microsoft Office as well as the license itself?
I'm very confused, since I want to get rid of all files (I have already taken a backup of the ones I need), but I do not want to lose the license that came with the computer along with preinstalled office.
Help would be much appreciated.
Thank you so much for this!
Can you download your stuff back
@@cutekawaii6374 duh
Thank you!! I didn't want to have to do this after only having my laptop for one year and having tonnes of apps mostly VSTs and music stuff. I tried my best to keep my laptop safe as best as I could. Didn't download anything suspicious and ran virus/malware scans and repairs very regularly. When I run the repair (ReImage) it says there is no problems with the stability or anything else and the virus scanner (Spyhunter) shows no viruses/malware. I'm not sure what the problem is. I deleted some apps as I thought the RAM might be under pressure. Didn't help in any way. Windows/laptop keeps crashing every time I open an app (or basically do any little thing such as move a file or go on the web) and then gets stuck on black screen of death. Its unbearable at this stage. This is the last resort now, wish it hadn't come to this but it has. However I will accept it if the laptop works properly after the reset. However if after the reset if the system is still constantly crashing every 10 minutes after login then its curtains :/
how did it work?
@@raheimfuller1089 he couldnt open again
Damn daniel
What happened
that happened to me too, luckily my laptop was in warranty, so the manufacture company fixed it. They just emailed me a while and I ran it, and BOOM
Thank you i had viruses and now i got rid of them all and got more gb for games your the best guy!
I have a question. My laptop claimed to come with microsoft office 2019 home and student, but since my uni provide microsoft 365, i deleted the 2019 one and downloaded the 365 one. So, if I reset my windows 10, going with the option of keeping private file, will microsoft 2019 be reinstalled back?
Mine is stuck on preparing to reset
Me who cant even open settings cuz of the lag:
Same😂
Same
If you boot you pc from a USB with the WIndows ISO you can also reinstall Windows over the existing installation and still keep your files including all your apps.
BRO THANK YOU SO MUCH BECAUSE MY LAPTOP WAS SO LAGGY THANKS FOR YOUR HELP
Do i need to manually create a system image file? Or is it made by the computer automatically? Im leaning on the local reset but not sure if i need the file
I don't know why but everytime I try to do this it always says there was a problem resetting your PC
Same here
Same
Any solution? Trying here
@@martimoliveira9509 Get a USB.
Boot into BIOS. Check if your OS is fried or not. If it is (fried means system files have been compromised or broken) search up how to install windows 10 from a separate device. (ex: booting into windows xp or vista on a old laptop and doing a new installation of windows 10.)
But I don't know, if that doesn't work punch it a couple times and pray that you didn't break something.
Same thing happened to me, I ended up downloading from the cloud
thanks bro! My laptop has a virus that i can't repair and i didn't know how to reboot it but now i know
thanks man its just the video i needed
Does keep my file option also removed all the driver and window updates?
Thanks bro my games now play on 240 fps again
Damn
Incredible tutorial
Thank you so much for this bro I’ve been wanted to reset my laptop
I Can Finally Play Pc Games Without People Thinking I Live In a McDonalds
I felt like taking my bat and hit my laptop 😂
😂
Thanks for the video. Which option is recommended after a motherboard change? I would like to keep files if that's possible. Thanks
HI, is there any difference between Local Reinstall and Cloud Download, besides the speed?
Well in my case the keyboard is gone haywire, it seems like a software problem,so before showing it to the shop I am resetting it to see if my guess was true
Did it work? I’m resetting it for the same reason lol
@@arscenic8625 nha man I had to disable keyboard manually and use a USB keyboard bcuz I didn't wanted to fix it 😂
Just bought a laptop that I need to return. Can I reset it and then leave it so I don't have to go through the start up settings/prompts again? Thanks.
At the "Set Up Windows" wizard screen press Shift + F10.
When the Command Prompt window opens type shutdown /s /t 1 and hit Enter
Yes. I did the same thing recently.
@@Solidcancer07 hello I have a question, my sister gave me her laptop leaving all the files and apps she used when she was still using that laptop. What I want to do is delete all of those since I have my own files and apps I want to download, and for It to be less laggy also. What is the best way to do? Should I restart it?
Thanks! I chose wipe it all! I want that brand new pc feeling again.
"keep the personal files" does this just include the ones in the windows folders and cloud or is it on every hard-drive and every folder ive created with my pictures, videos, documents etc? so basicly my question is what counts as "personal files" and what does not