![]() As Desmond Lee explains in a Building Windows 8 Blog, "Refresh functionality is fundamentally still a reinstall of Windows. System Restore rolls back Registry settings and some system files to an earlier state. (Reset is the other option, which wipes out the PC and returns it to the same state it was in when you bought it.) Microsoft advises that Windows 8 customers run a Refresh under the same circumstances that Windows 7 users might run a System Restore - that is, when your system suddenly falls over or starts behaving absurdly. ![]() ![]() Refresh, you may recall, is the Windows 8 revitalization procedure that preserves the user's data and settings but re-installs Windows underneath. At the risk of sounding overly technical, the fundamental problem is that you can't have your cake and eat it, too. In the past few weeks, I've seen many analyses and demos of Windows 8 Refresh, but they all seem to overlook a very important fact: It ain't perfect.
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