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Restoring Factory Settings?

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by nwickman, 2004/09/09.

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    nwickman

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    Is there a way to get my pc to get back to the way it was brand new, with everything that's been added since to get wiped clean? I don't have a CD or a disk, but I thought I read that some windows machines have the utility to do this built in to them. Anyone know about this?
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    "Some" (very few) name brand pc's put the restore cd info on a hidden partition. Might look in your instruction manual.
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    "SYSTEM.1ST is a Read-only, Hidden file stored on the root directory of your C: drive. It will restore the Registry to the settings when you first installed, and successfully started Windows. "

    This ONLY restores the Registry back to when the pc was booted for the very first time. Would in effect destroy a pc that's been running a long time.
     
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    Thought that is what nwickman wanted. But may be moot if not on WinMe.
     
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