Win8 Encyclopedia 13: System restore and reinstall the system

Author: Zhou Pu

If the time the operating system uses a long or a user accidentally deleted some files, or computer loaded too More junk files will affect the computer experience. Therefore, the Win8 system also provides users with two functions that can refresh the system ——“recovery system" and "reinstall the system". Let's take a look at the two services of Win8.
Win8 Encyclopedia 13: Recovery System and Reinstallation System

First, we enter the “Change PC Settings” option from the Charm bar on the right side of the screen. Find these two features in the "General" options.
Click on Charm Bar - Change Computer Settings
Enter“General"Options

Restore Win8 System

Restore System (Refresh): If your computer is not working properly, This feature allows you to recover Win8 without losing photos, music, videos and other personal files.

That is, the system retains the user's files, personalization settings, and Metro applications, and reinstalls the Windows system.
Recover the computer
Click to restore

Note that if you have a Surface tablet, you can restore it directly; but if you are using an upgraded Win8 system, then you need Insert the boot installation disk to recover. (The next “reinstall the system” also need to be)

Reinstalling the Win8 system

Reinstalling the system (Reset): This feature will delete all Personal data, apps and settings, and reinstall Windows, the principle is similar to Android's "brush machine".

If you want to sell your computer or lend it to someone else, you can use this feature to initialize your Win8 device to factory settings.
Initialize the computer
Clean up the drive completely

It should be noted that during the initialization process, the system will prompt “Do you want to completely clean the drive? & rdquo; If there is privacy content on the user's computer, a complete cleanup is a good choice.