| Jávea Grapevine No.173 2015
Hi Everyone!
Easy
computer-talk
Is your computer slower than a herd
of snails traveling through peanut
butter? Does it behave randomly
when you use it for daily tasks
that used to run smoothly? Have
you suffered the attack of viruses,
malware or other intrusive software?
Well if you find yourself in any of
these situations, perhaps it’s the time
to restore it to its factory settings and
in this and on the following’s edition
posts we are going to see some ways
to do this.
system, a partition for the operating
system and all installed programs,
and a partition for all extra data.
Starting a recovery via the recovery
partition usually means that you have
to press one of the “F” keys (such as
F1-F12) the moment after you hit the
power button.
These are some key combination
for
computers
from
first-line
manufacturers:
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First of all, as whenever we are going
to tamper with important settings,
we must be absolutely sure that we
have a very recent backup of all our
vital data if it is stored on the same
drive as the Operating System, just
in case something goes wrong.
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If we decide to perform a task like the
one we are about to explain, it’s to
improve the experience of working
with our computers, not to go ballistic
because we suddenly realise that
we’ve lost all or part of our photos,
videos or other types of files that are
important for us…
If we have a separate partition this
backup isn’t mandatory, as the
changes we are going to make
should only affect the main drive
where the Operating System ‘lives’,
but to perform regular data backup
still it isn’t the worst of the ideas.
Most of the modern computers
come with the operating system
pre-installed and have a recovery
partition to restore it. Therefore the
first option should be to do the restore
using the utility the own manufacturer
of our computer has created for this
task.
A partition is a portion of the hard
drive that is sectioned off. Primarily,
they’re used to limit the amount of
space that can be used for certain
data. For example, a hard drive
could have several partitions: a
recovery partition which contains all
the recovery setup files necessary
for a clean refresh of the operating
Acer – Alt + F10
Asus – F9
Dell /Alienware – F8
HP – F11
Lenovo – F11
MSI – F3
Samsung – F4
Sony – F10
Toshiba – 0 (not the one on the
numeric pad) while turning on,
release key when Toshiba logo
appears
Doing so tells the BIOS that you’d
like to run the recovery setup
rather than load your Windows
installation. Then, simply follow
the
on-screen
instructions
to
complete the recovery — it should
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