How to reset your Windows 11 system
by Barbara Krasnoff from The Verge - All Posts on (#5YD6V)
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When you're running a Windows system, sometimes things just go wrong. A couple of years ago, I made the mistake of not checking to make sure my laptop was securely plugged in while Windows was undergoing a major update. The battery ran out in the middle of the update and voila! I was stuck with what I was sure was now a very expensive brick. Another time, a Windows 10 system decided that it didn't like the latest update and began misbehaving. (It would stop responding to input one minute after it booted.)
In both cases, I was able to save an otherwise unusable PC by doing a reset, which removes all (or most) of the files and apps on the hard drive and reinstalls Windows.
(By the way, you have backed up your computer, right?)
Resets are...