{"id":3505,"date":"2014-06-06T03:35:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2014-06-06T03:43:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:43:55","slug":"2-options-to-reset-windows-8-tablet-to-factory-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/2-options-to-reset-windows-8-tablet-to-factory-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Options to Reset Windows 8 Tablet to Factory Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"

If your Windows 8 tablet has been infected by a virus or has become slow to the point of being unusable, resetting the tablet to factory settings may be the best and quickest solution. Luckily, Windows 8 has built-in tool to reset your tablet to its original state. In this article I’ll show you 2 options to reset Windows 8 tablet to factory settings.<\/p>\n

WARNING:<\/em> All your documents, pictures, settings, accounts and any other data on your Windows 8 tablet will be deleted while performing factory reset.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Reset from within Windows:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap Settings<\/strong>. If you’re using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, click Settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  2. Tap or click Change PC settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  3. Tap or click Update and recovery<\/strong>, and then tap or click Recovery<\/strong>.\"reset-windows-8\"<\/li>\n
  4. Under Remove everything and reinstall Windows<\/b>, tap or click Get started<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Reset from Windows 8 Login Screen<\/strong><\/p>\n

    If you’ve lost your password, you may not have to reset your tablet. See unlock Windows 8 password<\/a> before performing these reset steps:<\/p>\n

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    1. From the Windows sign-in screen, tap or click the Power icon in the lower right corner of the sign-in screen.<\/li>\n
    2. Press and hold the Shift<\/strong> key. (If you’re using the on-screen keyboard, tap or click the Shift key.)\"\"<\/li>\n
    3. While the Shift key is still pressed, tap or click Restart<\/strong>. After the tablet restarts, the Choose an option screen will display.<\/li>\n
    4. Tap or click Troubleshoot<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    5. Tap or click Reset your PC<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      If you don’t have a keyboard connected to Windows 8 tablet, you’ll need to use the on-screen keyboard to do these reset steps. From the Windows 8 sign-in screen, tap or click the Ease of access<\/strong> icon in the lower-left corner of the screen, and then tap or click On-Screen Keyboard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      If your Windows 8 tablet has been infected by a virus or has become slow to the point of being unusable, resetting the tablet to factory settings may be the best and quickest solution. Luckily, Windows 8 has built-in tool to reset your tablet to its original state. In this article I’ll show you 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,39],"tags":[1708,1709,1710,1707],"class_list":["post-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-8","tag-factory-reset-windows-8","tag-how-to-factory-reset-windows-8-without-password","tag-reset-windows-8-tablet","tag-reset-windows-8-tablet-to-factory-settings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}