{"id":314,"date":"2013-07-19T08:43:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T08:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2023-04-18T06:41:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T06:41:58","slug":"reset-windows-8-on-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/reset-windows-8-on-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reset Windows 8 on a Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Windows Surface Tablet appears, tablet has brought many changes on Windows operational system, including Windows 8. As the newest Windows OS user, maybe you have encountered different kinds of problems. However, no matter what you met, such as forgot Windows login password, the most original and the important way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/reset-windows-8-on-tablet\"><strong>reset Windows 8 tablet<\/strong> <\/a>is to <strong>restore and reset Windows 8 tablet to factory settings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 8 has built in tools to restore your pc to its original state. And this contains restoring Windows registry to original status. So you can use this to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/windows-password\/windows-password-recovery-advanced-guide.html\"> reset Windows 8 accounts and password<\/a>. We all know that if Windows 8 Tablet restore to factory settings, the automatic account is Administrator without password. So part of the following procedure can also be used if you don&#8217;t remember the password or if you need to reset the Windows 8 Tablet to Factory defaults for someone else to use.<\/p>\n<h2>Scene 1: Restore Windows 8 tablet to factory settings when access Windows 8<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1. Move the mouse to the top-right of the window, choose Setting and you will find \u201cChange PC settings\u201d on the lower-right of the window.<\/li>\n<li>2. Click it to enter PC setting surface, choose \u201cGeneral\u201d and option \u201cRefresh your PC without affecting files\u201d for you.<\/li>\n<li>3. Press \u201cGet started\u201d to begin refreshing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/refresh-pc1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"222\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/refresh-pc1.png\" alt=\"refresh pc\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/refresh-pc1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/refresh-pc1-300x111.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you want to keep your personal files like documents, photos, videos and other data as it is, you want to restore your windows files only. Use this option to <strong>refresh windows 8<\/strong> to its original installation. This is also helpful if your machine becomes slow. Make sure to back up your data just in case.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to restore it to factory settings, you have to choose another option \u201c<strong>Remove everything and reinstall Windows<\/strong>\u201d, click \u201cGet started\u201d to restore Windows 8 to the default settings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/reset-pc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"132\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/reset-pc.png\" alt=\"reset pc\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/reset-pc.png 600w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/reset-pc-300x66.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Scene 2: Restore Windows 8 tablet to default factory settings without\u00a0 logon Windows<\/h2>\n<p>When you couldn\u2019t login into Windows 8 tablet, restart it and press <strong>Shift<\/strong> when power on Windows 8 tablet. You will enter the surface where three options are provided. Choose <em>Troubleshoot Option<\/em>, and then choose the first option, \u201c<strong>Reset your PC<\/strong>\u201d pops up, click \u201cnext\u201d. Until there are two options for you, choose the second to begin factory settings restore.<\/p>\n<p>The above introduce how to restore Windows 8 tablet to default Windows settings in both cases. 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