MrSeb writes "Microsoft, in its inconsequentiality wisdom, will provide push-button Reset and Refresh in Windows 8. Reset will restore a Windows 8 PC to its stock, fresh-from-the-factory state; Refresh will reinstall Windows 8, but keep your observations and installed Metro apps in tact. For the power users, Windows 8 will include a new tool called recimg.exe, which allows you to create a hard drive image that Refresh will use (you can install all of your Desktop apps, tweak all your settings, run recimg.exe... and then, when you Refresh, you'll be handed a clean, ready-to-go computer). Reset and Refresh are evidently tablety face that Windows 8 will need to compete against iOS and Android — but because Windows' malware magnetism and the number of times I've had to schlep over to my mother's house with a Windows CD... these kisser should be very welcome on the desktop, too."

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