![]() The other is that if the results of whatever it is you do. Everything that’s on your machine will be on your image backup. Should you need to get a data file back that you didn’t think to back up some other way? It’s all going to be there. One is the image backup is by definition, the canonical resource. Now the advice and it’s going to hold true for today’s exercise as well, is that before you do anything as significant as a reinstall from scratch or a Reset, this PC or the refresh approach that I’m going to show you today, I think it’s critical that, of course, you take an image backup beforehand. So you’re stuck having to reinstall all of those other applications and reinstalling or recopying back your data. There are some ways to protect some of your data, but you certainly end up losing all of your installed applications. ![]() It by definition, reformatting and re-installing means erase everything and reinstall and Reset this PC works basically the same way. All of your installed applications, all of your data, all of your everything is is gone. ![]() Now the problem with a reinstall from scratch or a Reset this PC is that everything’s gone. By that I mean that it would just start to get a little a little sensitive or a little fragile the longer you used it, it was usually a side effects of applications being installed and updated or not updated as the case may be, but the pragmatic approach in those days was, of course, to reinstall Windows from scratch every so often. It was actually advisable to do it like once a year or once every two years simply because Windows seemed to get kind of, I don’t know, it would deteriorate over time. This was something that in years past we did frequently. ![]() I regularly end up advising people if they’ve got their Windows in such a state that it just looks like it’s something they can’t repair that they should consider doing a Reset this PC which is something I covered in a previous video, which is essentially the equivalent of a reformat and reinstall Windows from scratch. ![]()
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