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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (882250)	8/24/2015 5:08:34 PM
From: locogringo	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1571135

Have never heard of factory restore. IMO, it's the last option before scrapping the computer or doing a clean re-install. It wipes the computer clean to factory settings at day 1. No updates, no new programs, no new mail, nothing that you installed along the way. Drastic, but sometimes you can restore a lot from a backup, without the offending blue screen culprit. Maybe a repair shop can clean it up?

To: tejek who wrote (882250)	8/24/2015 5:49:28 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571135

Most machines have a factory restore option. It will return your machine to the same as when you took it out of the box. After that depending on how long you have used it there will be a load of windows updates, Java and Adobe upgrades. They don't take that long and the machine will prompt you for them.