Tap or click Update and recovery , and then tap or click Recovery. Under Refresh your PC without affecting your files , tap or click Get started. If you want to recycle your PC, give it away, or start over with it, you can reset it completely.
This removes everything and reinstalls Windows. Warning: All of your personal files will be deleted and your settings will be reset. All apps that you installed will be removed. Only apps that came with your PC will be reinstalled. Under Remove everything and reinstall Windows , tap or click Get started.
Note: You'll be asked to choose whether you want to erase data quickly or thoroughly. If you choose to erase data quickly, some data might be recoverable using special software. If you choose to erase data thoroughly, this will take longer but it makes recovering data less likely.
If you think an app or driver that you recently installed caused problems with your PC, you can restore Windows back to an earlier point in time, called a restore point.
Windows automatically creates a restore point when you install desktop apps and new Windows updates, if the last restore point is older than 7 days. You can also create a restore point manually at any time. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search. If you're using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, and then click Search.
Enter Control Panel in the search box, and tap or click Control Panel. Enter Recovery in the Control Panel search box, and then tap or click Recovery. If you need additional help refreshing, resetting, or restoring your PC, check out the Repair and Recovery community pages in the Windows forum for solutions that other people have found for problems they've experienced.
Access the main menu by selecting "Start," place the cursor over Computer and press the right mouse button, then choose "Properties.
On the left-hand side of the window, choose the link called "System protection. Clear the checkmark next to your drive by clicking on it again Click the " Turn System Restore Off " button. Method 4. Choose the button marked "Configure," Select the button next to " Turn off system protection " and click " Apply ".
Method 5. Open Start menu by clicking "Start" or pressing Windows Key on your keyboard. Type "System" and press Enter. This will open System in Control Panel. Click System protection link in the left pane. A new window will open now. Select your system drive which is usually "C:" drive.
It should have protection turned on. Click or tap on "Configure" button. A new window will appear now. Click or tap "Delete" button at the right-bottom to delete all restore points. Select "Disable system protection" and click Apply.
Click yes in confirmation dialog to turn it off. Hey this is how to. Yes No. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 1. Can I delete a recovered image? Also, I've upgraded my Windows since creating the recovery image. George Chour Chi Pang. You can delete a recover image after you've upgraded Windows if you would never go back to the old Windows. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 0. The system will misbehave and enable commands not used, and will eventually lead to the blue screen of death.
No, deleting all restore points will only stop the ability to go back to a previous point in your computer. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Then, how to protect your system without disk space issues?
You can try a professional backup software in the next part. Its backup and deletion mechanisms can help you protect your system but not worry about the backup disk space. And it works on a much broader scale, you can get your computer even if it fails. It works as follows:. Its Schedule Backup feature will create multiple backups for you while its Backup Scheme feature allows you to specify backup deletion policy. It will delete the backups within a specific backup time, and keep other backups after that.
You can set the deletion mechanisms either during or after creating a backup. Download and install this software on your computer. Then, select System Backup under the Backup tab, it will choose the system partitions and other partitions required to start Windows. Choose a destination path to store the backup image. Specify the retention policy you want to use and click Start Backup to complete this configuration. Options : you can set email notification, backup compression and encryption, etc.
Schedule Backup : you can set backup settings - daily, weekly, monthly, event trigger, and USB plug-in. Select the previously created system backup, click the three-line button and select Edit Backup. In the pop-up window, click Backup Scheme and set a backup retention policy to delete old backup files for reuse.
System restore points are very useful to help you save your computer from an emergency, but sometimes you need to delete it due to insufficient disk space. You have two ways but all of them require human intervention every time.
If you don't want to do it manually every time or need a guaranteed way to save your computer, wether it's a problem related to Windows updates, drivers, software or something more serious that even makes your computer unbootable, you could choose to create a system image backup rather than just a snapshot of current state of your computer. Then, no matter what happens, you can restore system image to new hard drive and then make your computer work as it was.
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