Windows 8 to have “Restore to factory settings” feature, installs in only 3 min

Home » Microsoft

Reading time icon 1 min. read

Calendar icon Published on

by Surur Davids 

published on

Share this article

Readers help support MSpoweruser. We may get a commission if you buy through our links. Tooltip Icon

Read our disclosure page to find out how can you help MSPoweruser sustain the editorial team Read more

Windows-8-wallpaper1

A leaked wallpaper encouraging Microsoft developers not to … leak…

Microsoft is ploughing forward with their plan to use a desktop OS as their tablet operating system, but that does not mean they are not up to the challenge.

Their latest effort to make Windows 8 more like a mobile OS is the ability to restore the OS to factory settings, a life saver for many  a smartphone user in the past. 

Apparently the process to restore the device will only take 2 minutes, and will not take up a massive amount of disk space.

Likely related to this is the ability to install the whole OS in 3-8 minutes, rather than the 25 minute minimum required these days.

Windows8beta also mention other features familiar to Windows Phone 8, like login using your Live ID, a multi-touch UI and a app store.

Read more about these other features, which does give us some improved confidence in Microsoft’s strategy, at Windows8Beta here.

Thanks Vipul for the tip.

Surur Davids

Surur Davids Shield

Smartphone Expert

Surur Davids is the founder of WMPoweruser which later became MSPoweruser.com. He's a smartphone expert with over a decade of experience.

User forum

0 messages