# Restore my old laptop to factory settings, what a relief

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restore-my-old-laptop-to-factory-settings-what-a-relief/830506>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 3, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restore-my-old-laptop-to-factory-settings-what-a-relief/830506 "2019-03-03T22:48:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![smokey78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@smokey78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smokey78)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restore-my-old-laptop-to-factory-settings-what-a-relief/830506/1 "2019-03-03T22:48:20Z")

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Last few days,my 5yr old laptop started slowing down, then came to frozen welcome page. I tried cold start over and over and managed to do safe mode and gave in and did factory settings restore. The system restore I used to do didn’t even work anymore.

WHEW, the factory settings worked as my browser 's running smoothly. I just had to reinstall my software and office not a big time consuming task.

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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restore-my-old-laptop-to-factory-settings-what-a-relief/830506/2 "2019-03-03T23:44:31Z")

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Hopefully it will stay that way. I did that and it worked fine till the windows updates slowed it back to where it was before. I had to re-do everything again and exclude that batch of updates, which I don’t think one can do anymore.