 What's up everyone takedown here welcome back to another video today I'm gonna be showing you guys how to factory Resets a laptop that has either Windows 8 Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 Now Windows 10 will look slightly different today I'm gonna be showing you guys on a Windows 8 laptop, but it's basically the same steps Now this is different than any of the videos I usually record that whenever I'm showing you guys how to do something on the laptop Because as you guys can see I'm not recording the screen the reason for that is because I'm factory Resetting it. I'm not gonna be able to keep the footage that I am screen recording Makes sense to me. I just wanted to mention that for a video So I'm gonna try my best here. I'm gonna try to actually move this a little bit closer So you guys can see the screen a little bit better. I think that's the best I can get it right now with this current setup So what you're gonna want to do this is Windows 8 laptop It is basically the same thing on a Windows 10 the only difference Windows 10 You're gonna have the search bar down here and you can actually search Exactly where we're going to go and since we are on Windows 8 I'm gonna be showing you on here So Windows 8 you will just have to go over to the right hand corner and go down to settings and this you're Gonna want to go into the control panel Now within your control panel, you're just gonna want to click on review your computer status and On this you're going to go and we find the recovery option Now if you're using Windows 10 to factory reset and that's what your factory resetting on all you need to do is type in the search bar in the bottom Recovery and you should be able to get to where we are So if you're experiencing problems with your PC you can refresh it That's what you're gonna want to click and it's gonna open up your PC settings That is what you're going to want to do You can either type in your recovery on Windows 10 in the corner or you can type in PC settings and you should be brought to a similar screen So it automatically puts us under general. That's exactly where we want to be if it's under personalized or users Just click general it automatically puts us here and you're gonna scroll to the bottom And it's gonna be the second last option here, which says remove everything and re reinstall windows If you want to recycle your PC or start over completely you can reset it to its factory settings That's what I'm going to be selecting today. This is my old laptop. I plan on Selling it or donating it whatever it might come first, but I need to factory reset it And it's just gonna tell you this is what's gonna happen all your personal files and apps will be removed And it's gonna be reverted back to the defaults. So this should be common sense But some people don't realize until they do it Take off and back up any files that you want to save Prior to factory resetting because it wipes out your laptop a lot of people do not do that So if you're ready you hit next and you let it load Now this I might have to forward and just cut out this time just because of it might take a while It might not we will see shortly here, but I'll let you guys know exactly how long it takes So that took less than two minutes And it's gonna give you the two options of what you want to do and it says do you want to fully clean your drive? and then it says The two options here that you can click just remove my files This will only take a few minutes that will just take off your personal stuff But if you're having a problem with your laptop or you are factory resetting it because you plan on Selling it. Let's say you've got a new laptop or you no longer want to use this one You're gonna do the second option and that's the one I take now to even tells you this will take much more time So that is the one I'm going to be doing today. This will remove all of your personal files and Apps it'll restore the PC to its defaults And yeah, so that's exactly what I want to do. That's factory resetting your laptop So I'm gonna hit reset Now it should be in the process there it goes now it is restarting and This like it said this is what can Take a lot of time So like I said a minute ago, I'm going to probably cut out all this time Just so it's not a really long and boring video But I'll let you guys know exactly at the end whenever this process is done exactly how long it took So that honestly just took a couple of seconds just to get from the restarting screen to the Toshiba screen Now it's gonna say it's preparing here and it's probably going to do the same exact thing again So it should probably come up to another screen and then it should eventually go back to the Toshiba screen whenever it is Almost done. So here we go. It now says zero percent It is resetting and like I said it can take a while So I'll just come back in a minute whenever it is done Okay, so that is taking a lot longer than I wanted it to I wanted to show you guys step-by-step on how to factory reset a Laptop using Windows 8 8.1 or Windows 10 But it is taking so long because factory resetting a laptop it takes a long time But basically what it's going to do it's going to go to about 30 to 50 percent on that black screen you guys seen then it's going to come up again with the White screen or the blue screen and then it will go to a black screen and at that point You're gonna think to yourself that it's turning off, but it's not It's just basically doing some more of the steps internally and then it's going to come back to the Toshiba logo screen or whatever Make your laptop is and it is going to basically Continue going until it is at a hundred percent resets at which point It's going to start asking you to put in the information as if you're just buying the laptop a brand new So that is how you factory reset a laptop using Windows 8 8.1 or Windows 10 I did show you guys on a Windows 8 But a Windows 10 is basically going to be the very same steps Except it's going to look a little bit different of course navigating Windows 10 versus Windows 8 is a huge difference Instead of going to the right hand corner and going to your settings There's a search bar where you can either type in recovery to get to where we were on this video Or you can type in PC settings to get to the same spot So that's what I would do if you're trying to do this on a Windows 10 If you're doing it on Windows 8 or 8.1 just follow exactly what I did in this video and you can factory reset your laptop I hope this has helped you guys out. I'm going to leave this video here. Please take care. Peace