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On Windows 10 the factory reset is suppose to nuke the Foistware. It's more a Windows reset:).I'm lost! What's the big deal about a Factory Reset?
To get back to a Factory install, you're loosing every program you ever installed on your PC,
then you're loosing all of the data files you've collected since the PC was originally installed.
Plus, you get back all of the CRAP software that was installed at the factory.
I'd prefer a root canal to a Factory Reset!!!
My own alternative, is to take the new PC, tweak it and tune it for maximum efficiency, then DE-Install all the Crapware that came with the factory install, then install all my own favorite programs that I use daily, re-install all my data files and finally when it's exactly the way I want it, I do a Ghost Backup of the C: drive to either a secondary hard drive or an external USB hard drive. (your Backup/Restore program MUST NOT be on your C: drive, in case that drive crashes)
Then if anything goes haywire, I can boot up with my Ghost boot disk (CD, or flash drive), run a Ghost Restore and I'm right back to where I was when I did the last Ghost backup.
To try to stay up to date, I make a new Ghost Backup once a week and a full Data Backup to an external FD or HD whenever I add new files to my data folders. (that could be Daily, using a DOS Batch File, with XCOPY)
Just last week, I had to do a Ghost Restore, to get rid of some nasties that were messing up Windows.
All I lost in the process was a few emails that I had not saved. No big deal.
So can we please, do away with this Factory Reset garbage?