{"id":187,"date":"2013-10-18T23:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T23:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/?p=187"},"modified":"2014-08-29T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T17:49:48","slug":"using-windows-8-refresh-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/2013\/10\/18\/using-windows-8-refresh-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Windows 8 Refresh Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 has a very helpful built in refresh tool which re-installs windows without destroying your personal files and windows settings. Any apps that were not originally installed with the OS or downloaded from the Windows Store will be <strong>deleted<\/strong> and an HTML file will be created on the desktop detailing what software has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>This tool is extremely helpful in many cases. If the computer is missing certain drivers or the OS is incorrectly installed, using refresh can make for an easy quick-fix.<\/p>\n<p>For a step by step walk through on using Windows Refresh:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-8\/restore-refresh-reset-pc\">http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-8\/restore-refresh-reset-pc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on what Refresh does and how it works:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/251527\/windows_8_refresh_feature_makes_it_easy_to_start_with_a_clean_slate.html\">http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/251527\/windows_8_refresh_feature_makes_it_easy_to_start_with_a_clean_slate.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 has a very helpful built in refresh tool which re-installs windows without destroying your personal files and windows settings. Any apps that were not originally installed with the OS or downloaded from the Windows Store will be deleted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/2013\/10\/18\/using-windows-8-refresh-tool\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,47,48,44,45],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-refresh","tag-reinstall","tag-tools","tag-windows","tag-windows-8"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Josh Smith","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/author\/joshsmith\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Windows 8 has a very helpful built in refresh tool which re-installs windows without destroying your personal files and windows settings. Any apps that were not originally installed with the OS or downloaded from the Windows Store will be deleted &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/student1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}