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Windows 8 will have recovery options
SOFTWARE HOUSE Microsoft has detailed the options that will be available to recover a crashed PC running Windows 8.
Users will be offered two alternatives when presented with a Windows crash, with options to either refresh or reset their lost machine.
The changes are detailed in a blog post from the firm where the refresh option was described as a way of retaining some work while restoring core OS functions. The other is a full face wipe.
"We've built two new features in Windows 8 that can help you get your PCs back to a 'good state' when they're not working their best, or back to the 'factory state' when you're about to give them to someone else or decommission them," explains Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky in the introductory blog post.
"The strength of this approach is that you start over from a truly clean state, but you still get to keep the things you care about. With that as the basis of the solution, our goal was to make the process much more streamlined, less time-consuming, and more accessible to a broad set of customers."
Broadly, the two options work as follows. Fully resetting your PC will remove all personal data, apps, and settings from the PC and reinstall Windows, while just refreshing will keep all personal data, Metro style apps, important settings on the PC and reinstall Windows.
The reset option includes features for erasing old data more thoroughly. This involves choosing the "Thorough" option and should help protect more sensitive users, or firms storing official or compliance related information, from having their data exposed through third party refreshes.
The refresh option is more suited to problem solving, and will let users retain some elements of the machine while resetting their standard applications. Data will not need to be backed up to a hard drive and Microsoft said that Windows 8 will scan the hard drive for items that it deems important and put them aside for use once the refresh is completed.
Recovered items will include Microsoft's Metro style apps as well as settings for wireless connections, for example. µ
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MY FAVORITE APP IS DEEP FRIED ZUCHINI AND MY 2ND FAVORITE IS STUFFED JALAPENO AND MY 3RD FAVORITE IS NACHOS WITH CHEESE AND PEPPERS.
THOSE ARE MY FAVORITE APPS AND WINDOWS 8 WILL GIVE ME A FULL FACE WIPE?
I wonder why Stephen Sinofsky did not mention option #3: Linux?
But seriously, what is new here? Even with Windows XP, I could blow away Windows and reinstall it. And I could do a "recovery" to put back all the Windows files the way they were at the factory, preserving user's data AND NON-WINDOWS PROGRAMS.
All we're getting here are some recycled concepts, perhaps made a little bit easier. Either a Windows reinstall or a Windows recovery is an arduous multi-step process, as is just about everything else with Windows anyhow.
If Microsucks was fined $100 for every reported incident caused by their defective code, they'd find a way to deliver a better product or go out of Biz.
Figure out how to activate the 'reset'. It does most of their work for them and if the user interrupts the 'reset' its good odds it will brick the unit.
The recovery options will surely help the typical clueless user. It will be one more service taken away from service technicians. I installed the developer preview today after reading the article. My first impressions of Windows 8 with the Metro interface are not good. I can see where Metro may help on a tablet device. On a desktop system this is worse than useless for an experienced Windows user. It is not fit for any purpose other than basic internet browsing. The sample apps are a joke. It took an hour to find a way get rid of Metro and get back to a useable start menu system. Once that was accomplished, it is as usable as Windows 7. Hopefully it will be easy to disable Metro in the release version.
Many times you should just wipe out the hdd and just start over with a clean install. People should always assume there computer will crash or even worse die so learn to back up everything every day not matter what os you use. Many vendors now don't give you a disk and the hdd has the only copy of windows, very bad idea if your hdd crashes. Demand a cd with a new computer or don't buy it. and windows being windows will need to be reinstalled so be ready for it. I would never trust MS with wiping out my data back to factory settings, the registry will still have data, I would almost be my life on it. Since I don't use MS anymore it's not a worry for me but I still back up everything by coping the actually files I want to a hdd and not just trusting a backup app because they to can fail.
Sadly many people don't know enough about computers and just trust MS and the vendor to keep them safe. In the end it's YOUR data to protect.
Back in Win98 days, I often had to reinstall Windows. It didn't touch much; every directory except /windows was left alone Then they started shipping PCs with no option except revirgination ("reset" in the Win8 context). So a reinstall would wipe out everything, making it a very, very last ditch tool
Given the weasel wording, would Win8 wipe out third-party (but not Microsoft) applications, and personal data not known to be associated with Microsoft applications? That would be just about as useful as revirgination, but more blatantly anticompetitive. I guess the antitrust case has ended.
Those mac users are just like that: they dont use windows, they dont know, but they still like to say something... The Restore option exist in windows for years, a wizard that the most stupid user can use to restore the system to a previous date. Just keep those moron comments to you Steve...
Seriously? They should copy Apple and just design a feature like Time Machine. Easy and automatic.