How to Refresh Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 This will show you how to use a new feature in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 to refresh your PC to keep all personal data, Metro style apps, and important settings from the PC, and reinstall Windows. If a recovery image provided by your PC's manufacturer is...
This tutorial is to allow you to be able to do a refresh or reset without having to connect your Windows 8 installation media. It basically creates an image of your installation file on the hard drive to be use instead.
The custom refresh will refresh Windows 8 to how everything was when you created the refresh image. This is good for say to create a custom refresh image of a clean install of Windows 8 with everything setup how you like to be able to use to refresh with instead of the default refresh.
This will show you how to boot to the System Recovery Options options screen to be able to refresh Windows 8, reset Windows 8, do a system restore, do a system image recovery, do a automatic repair, open a command prompt at boot, or open Advanced Boot Options to help in the recovery of Windows 8.
How to Create a Recovery Image used to Reset Windows 8 or 8.1 If you're having problems with Windows 8 or 8.1 on your PC, you can try to refresh, reset, or restore it. When you reset your PC, it will remove everything and reinstall Windows 8 or 8.1 to start over completely with a clean...
How to Reset Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 This will show you how to use a new feature in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 to reset your PC to completely start over back to default to remove all personal data, apps, and settings from the PC, and reinstall Windows. This is like doing a factory...
If you don't have an OEM PC that came with Windows 8 preinstalled and you updated Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, then when you refresh or reset Windows, it will reinstall Windows 8.1, but only if you have Windows 8.1 USB/DVD installation media.
When I launch the Google Chrome browser for the first instance on my Windows 8.1 desktop, all the desktop icons blink off and then immediately refresh themselves. The Chrome window opens, and while the window is filling, the icons turn very briefly white, then refresh with their icon image...
In Windows 8, is there a way to manually refresh the list of available wireless networks? If the only possible way to refresh your list of available wireless networks is through automatic refreshing, is there a way to go in and change the frequency it checks?
I was wondering what would happen if I deleted the CustomRefresh.wim. If I make frequent images, do I really need it. I understand the mechanics of the .wim, but on my little Transformer it eats SSD space on my little 30GB SSD. So I could free up some space.