Factory Reset

[SteveD]

I have a Packard Bell Dot-S netbook which I bought in October 2009 with Windows XP as the OS. A couple of years later, I used Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade to upgrade to Windows 7. Everything ran just fine.

For some time now,the netbook has been running very slowly. I have run MalwareBytes etc but nothing shows up as being a problem. Because I don't use it very often now and don't have vital files or software on it, I am considering doing a factory reset.

My question is: What will it reset to, XP or Windows 7? As stated above, I only have the Windows 7 Upgrade disk. Can the upgrade disk be used more than once? I do not have XP or full Windows 7 installation disks.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[SlackAlice]

Provided your hidden 'recovery' partition is still there and didn't get deleted during the upgrade, then the recovery will be set to Windows XP and then you can use the W7 upgrade disk.

The only problem that I can foresee is that XP is no longer supported and you would not be able to update it. This might interfere with the upgrade disk and cause it to fail.

A much better solution is to try and find out why your pc is now running slowly and correct any problems. You could start by doing a disk cleanup and disk check, followed by stopping anything unnecessary from starting during 'boot up'.

[HansUrbancka]

I think that a factory reset could result in problems which cannot be resolved.

Far better to go along with the final paragraph of the posting from S A ^^^

Hans.

[hc4361]

I do a factory reset on all my machines every 18 months or so.

I can't see that there will be a problem resetting your netbook and using the upgrade disk to W7.