Windows Computers Recovery Options.

In 2009, I got a Acer Windows 7 computer for Christmas from my sister and my brother-in-law. It worked fine for a few months then suddenly it started to work strange. so I use system restore to restore the computer to an earlier time; But unknown to me the electric company was putting in new electric meters and the electricity went off and screwed the system restore process.

For years I tried to recover my Acer  computer.My sister told me to press "alt" and F10 at the same time, I tried it and nothing happen. The trick is to get to the recovery drive then a few months ago this year I decided to fix the computer once and all. I looked online via another computer. it said press "alt" and keep tapping the "F10" key.


While holding down the "alt" key, I kept pressing the "F10" key as if I were sending Morse code nothing happen until I let go and two prompts showed up in the recovery options:

In my case I thought it was best to use option 2  erase the entire hard drive and reinstall. It took about four hours to have everything reinstalled.Yes, recent computers do this automatically. Even if the screen is blank for 10 or more minutes do not interrup. The computer itself will let you know when it is done.I am using my Windows 7 now, by the way.

Now different companies  have different methods on how to get to their recovery options. I also have a HP Windows 8 and to get to their recovery options you must hold down the "windows key" and keep tapping "F11" key.

I also have recovery disks for computers as the last resort in case I cannot get to the recovery options at all on the computers.

I made full factory settings recovery on both of my computers. Why?  because the icon and prompt saying "Get Windows 10" bugs me.My Windows 7 is going to stay Windows 7, and my Windows 8 is going to stay Windows 8.

And the only updates I am going to install from Windows Update are just the important updates and not the optional ones unless I need them to update certain drivers.

Windows 8 disk clean up  now offers Windows Update Cleanup which cleans up updates that is no longer needed, saving disk space. However, it is going to take hours. Once it is finish just restart your computer.

You can also have Windows Update clean up on Windows 7 however it must be downloaded from Mircosoft's download site.

Basically, it's how to fix one or more computers by looking for info on your working computers.  :)  

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