One-button reset: Learn how to use Refresh Your PC to restore your computer without deleting personal files or removing Windows Store apps and important PC settings in this Windows 8 tutorial.
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Almost all mobile devices on the market today offer the ability to factory reset a device with a single button press in case something doesn't work as expected. This way, users don't have to deal with scary errors or other problems like the device not booting properly. Following this approach, Windows 8 now also offers the same ability with two features called "Refresh your PC without affecting your files" and "Remove everything and reinstall Windows" (we'll talk about this in a later tutorial).
The two push-button reset concepts for restoring a PC have one key difference: the "Refresh" operation preserves the user's personal files, whereas the "Remove Everything" operation does not.
Here's the breakdown:
