How To Factory Reset Dell Laptop (Windows 10)

reset dell laptop windows 10

Your laptop may get infected by a virus if you are much into sharing data with other computer systems by using a pen drive or other storage device Or any malware will increase the CPU usages and your laptop will get slow, there maybe some other cases as well which is making your laptop slow in processing. Such cases you need to refresh the whole laptop so that it will work smoothly as before.

One of the best and workable solutions to this is by format or factory reset your Dell laptop. If you don’t know how to factory reset Dell Laptop, then follow the steps below:

Factory Reset Dell Laptop Windows 10

  1. Go To Setting by clicking on the Windows icon>>Settings on the bottom left corner.                                                     navigate settings windows 10                                                                                                                                                                                       OR search “Settings” on the Search bar.                                                                                                                              settings in search bar windows 10
  2. Open the Settings window, and click on Update & Security.                                                                                                settings window in windows 10
  3. Now choose Recovery Option from the left sidebar menu.                                                                                                    recovery option windows 10
  4. Click on the Get Started button under Reset This PC.                                                                                                             factory reset windows 10
  5. Choose from “Keep my files” or “Remove everything,” depending on whether you want to keep the data or not. Whatever option you choose, in both cases all your settings will change to default and all the installed apps will be uninstalled.                                        choose an option factory reset
  6.  “Just remove my files” or “Remove files and clean the drive” if you chosen “remove everything” option in the above step.                                                                                                                                                                                                       factory reset process windows 10
  7. Click  Next if Windows warns you that you won’t be able to roll back to a prior version of the OS.                         windows factory reset warning
  8. Now Click on Reset. Then Windows will start restting it according to the option you have chosen. It will take several minutes to complete the reset process.                                                                                                                                                          click reset windows 10 factory settings
  9. Click on Continue option.                                                                                                                                                     choose option windows 10 after reset

After going through all the above steps, your windows 10 Dell laptop will be reset. These are very easy steps and if next time you face such issue with your laptop performance then the best way to resolve it by resetting your laptop. And now you already know how to factory reset dell laptop.