I think I accidentally restore my computer to its original factory condition and now I can't access my files!

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• I lost my recovery for Windows Vista disk. How can I restore the computer to its original factory State?

  I lost my recovery for windows Vista disk. How can I restore the computer to its original factory State? I can't find how to create recovery discs, I did not have this option in the Recovery Manager

  Hello

  Here are the different ways to reinstall vista

  Contact the computer manufacturer and ask them to send you to vista recovery disks to reinstall the operating system back as it was when you bought it

  they do it for a nominal cost of $

  also ask them if you have a recovery partition on your hard drive to get back to the way you bought

  you would normally press F10 or F11 or Alt + F10, 0 at startup to start the recovery process according to the manufacturer

  Ask them of the exact key sequence

  or borrow a microsoft dvd vista

  Make sure that you borrow the correct 32-bit or 64-bit microsoft dvd to your computer

  they contain all versions of vista

  This is the product key that determines which version of vista is installed

  http://www.theeldergeek.com/Vista/vista_clean_installation.html

  Save all data, because it will be lost, do the above

  How to replace Microsoft software or hardware, order service packs and replace product manuals

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/326246

• I had to restore my computer to factory settings and now I can't get on the internet

  I had to restore my computer to factory settings and now I can't go on the internet. I have Windows 7

  Hello

  When you perform a restore, you may need to reinstall the network drivers, etc..

  As you can not access the internet on the recovery computer, use the computer that you are on to get here to do this.

  Go to the website to make your computer > Driver and Software Support Section > find your computer model number > then your operating system > locate drivers Windows 7 > download and install the desktop > copy to flash drive > transfer onto the repaired computer.

  Driver downloads:

  Acer:

  http://us.Acer.com/AC/en/us/content/drivers

  ADVENT:

  http://www.adventcomputers.co.UK/product-downloads

  Alienware:

  http://support.Alienware.com/Support_Pages/Restricted_Pages/driver_downloads.aspx

  ASUS:

  http://www.ASUS.com/support

  Dell:

  http://www.Dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/ProductSelector

  eMachines:

  http://www.eMachines.com/EC/en/us/content/drivers

  Fujitsu:

  http://www.Fujitsu.com/us/support/

  Gateway:

  http://us.gateway.com/GW/en/us/content/drivers-downloads

  HP:

  http://WWW8.HP.com/us/en/drivers.html

  Lenovo:

  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/default.page#

  LG:

  http://www.LG.com/us/support/software-manuals

  Samsung:

  http://www.Samsung.com/us/support/downloads

  Sony Vaio:

  http://eSupport.Sony.com/Perl/select-System.pl?Director=driver

  Toshiba:

  http://support.Toshiba.com/drivers

  You can download all the drivers this way, or once you have network and/or pilots Wi - Fi installed get the rest downloaded directly to the repaired machine.

  See you soon.

• I WANT TO KNOW IF I CAN START MY COMPUTER ON IT "S FACTORY CONDITION AND ELIMINATE ALL MALWARE, SOFTWARE SPY SOFTWARE AND VIRUSES

  I WANT TO KNOW IF I CAN START MY COMPUTER ON IT "S FACTORY CONDITION AND ELIMINATE ALL MALWARE, SOFTWARE SPY SOFTWARE AND VIRUSES

  Hello

  I'm sorry to hear that you are facing problem with sons of malware and viruses in your computer.

  It would be best to contact the computer manufacturer for assistance.

  Warning: Restore to factory settings remove everything and you start again with a clean machine.

  Hope the information is useful for you.

• I accidentally entered 2012 as my year of birth, and now I can't access my purchased downloads.

  I just bought photoshop and illustrator that downloads and accidentally entered 2012 as my year of birth and now I can't access my downloads because adobe thinks that I am a minor. How do I get around this?

  Contact technical support by phone, chat or web form and manualyl correct information.

  Mylenium

• I accidentally made a duplicate on my desktop Cache folder and now I can't put in finder or delete it, running El Capitan

  I accidentally made a duplicate on my desktop Cache folder and now I can't put in finder or delete it, running El Capitan

  Restart your mac, then delete. If not restaet in safeboot in press can pass

• My computer have Windows reloaded and now I can't access my e-mail stored previously in Windows Mail. How can I get back them?

  My computer have Windows reloaded and now I can't access my e-mail stored previously in Windows Mail. How can I get back them?

  You can try to search for *.eml, but if the disk has been formatted first, they will not be there.  The files are also hidden, so make sure that you enable the display of hidden files and folders under control panel | Folder options | View.  You can also check with those who 'reloaded' of Windows to see if they have backed up your data first.

  See www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#wm for information on the message to save the data.

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• How can I recover my computer to its original factory State?

  Remember - this is a public forum so never post private information such as numbers of mail or telephone!

  Ideas: How can I recover my computer to its original factory State?

  • You have problems with programs
  • Error messages
  • Recent changes to your computer
  • What you have already tried to solve the problem

  Remember - this is a public forum so never post private information such as numbers of mail or telephone!

  Ideas: How can I recover my computer to its original factory State?

  • You have problems with programs
  • Error messages
  • Recent changes to your computer
  • What you have already tried to solve the problem

  Hey elcuervo33

  Contact the computer manufacturer and ask them to send you the vista recovery disc reinstall vista to how you bought your computer

  they do it for a nominal cost of $

  also ask them if you have a recovery partition on your hard drive to get back to the way you bought

  you would normally press F10 or F11 or Alt + F10, 0 at startup to start the recovery process according to the manufacturer

  Ask them of the exact key sequence

  Walter, the time zone traveller

• Accidentally, I answered Yes when he asked me if I wanted to quit smoking and now I can't access to Lightroom. How do you get Lightroom now?

  Accidentally, I answered Yes when he asked me if I wanted to quit smoking and now I can't access to Lightroom. How do you get Lightroom now?

  What happens when you double-click the shortcut of Lightroom on your desktop?

• my cursor floating to and disrupt the layout, how can I restore my computer to its original state

  my cursor keeps floating offshore on its own and changed the fonts on my computer and do not know how to restore it to its original state

  Hello JeanSteel,

  I suggest try to perform a system restore to a time before having this problem.  If you want to restore your computer to factory settings, I would suggest contacting the manufacturer on the guidelines for this.  Also, be sure to back up your data before doing this.  Here is a link to perform a system restore.  Please let us know status.

  System Restore:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/products/features/system-restore

  Thank you

• How to restore my computer to its original settings

  I am selling my computer hwow can I remove power from her

  Depends on how paranoid you are, and if your computer is equipped with a provided by the manufacturer "restore hidden partition."

  When a computer manufacturer sells you a computer with Windows preinstalled, part of the Microsoft license agreement requires that it provides a way to reinstall the operating system.  In the old days, you will get a physical media (CD or floppy disks even), but for a number of years, manufacturers have been rather including hidden software on the disk hard drive that by operating, restores the computer to the way it was when it left the factory.

  How this restoration software is started depends on the brand and model of your computer.  See your user's Guide, go to the website of the manufacturer of the computer or identify the make and model in a response here.

  Running these software in general should replace anything currently on the hard disk, including your personal information.

  For more security, before running the software 'restore', you can delete any personal data that you know (there are still a few traces in the Windows registry and other locations of the system), and then run a utility that wipes free space and soft space on the disk.  See http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-secure-erase-utility.htm

  If you have a Windows installation CD to give to the buyer - or if you do not care to sell a computer without an operating system - download Darik Boot and Nuke (DBAN).  This utility will erase safely any hard drive, including the operating system.

  The extremely paranoid, including some administrations in three letters, remove hard disks and either keep for reuse or physically destroy them (by cutting, drilling, or fusion).

• I had to restore my computer windows 7 to a start time, and now I can't access photoshop cs

  I tried to access photoshop cs and he asked me to reactivate the program, but the program has not and then I tried to reinstall on Windows 7 Home Edition, but file transfer failed. He wouldn't. I just use cs the other day after I had restored the computer but now all of a sudden it uninstalled itself from my computer and I cannot reinstall it.

  Click Start > Control Panel > uninstall programs and see if the cs6 ps is installed.  If this is the case, uninstall using the uninstall program.

  Then, run the vacuum cleaner (http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html).

  Then, restart your computer and reinstall ps cs6.

• I can't find my external hard drive under 'Computer' but it appears in "Devices and printers" How can I access files on my external hard drive?

  I can't find my external hard drive in "computer".

  I just bougth a new HP computer running Windows 7.  I just copied a bunch of movie files, music and photo of my old Mac (OSX Leopard) on a Western Digital external hard drive.

  I plugged the external drive in my HP via USB 2.0 on the front of the computer.  Windows recognizes the drive.  She appears in the Panel of external control/hardware and Sound/devices and printers as "HARD disk".

  It does not appear in 'Computer' under 'devices with removable storage ".

  I just want to get to my files so I can copy them to my new computer.  How to access my files on the external hard drive?  Why isn't he appear in 'computer '?

  Hello ShamedMonkey,

  Thank you for your message.  The problem you are having is because of differences in formatting between PC and Mac.  You can, however, transfer your files between the two.  I will set out what must be done under and limitations of each.
  First, you will need to format the drive on your PC.  When you format the PC, you can format it in FAT32 or NTFS.
  (You mentioned that you do not see the drive in the computer) To format drive:
  Click 'Start' > right click on 'Computer' > select 'manage '.
  Click on "disk management".
  In the right pane, you should see your drive > you can then do a right click and 'format '.
  FAT32:
  This format will allow you to easily transfer files between the two.  This format becomes problematic when you transfer files more than 4 G.  There is a limit of 4 GB in FAT32, etc. of many movies are bigger than that and cannot be transferred using this format.
  NTFS
  This format has no size limitation, however, in its normal state it will be 'Read only' on Mac.  If you will not be able to transfer all the data itself.  While doing some research on the web, it seems that you can use a program called MacFuse on your Mac to change to NTFS files.  I have not confirmed this, but you can give it a try.  If this program works as planned, it would be the way to go.
  Please let us know if it did or did not solve your problem.
  See you soon

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• New computer, transfer of hard drives... How can I access the files executable for MS Word or, more importantly, Visual Studio 2012?

  I had an old computer get taken out by a storm. I managed to save to computer hard drives and installed them in a new computer. I can see my programs MS Word, PowerPoint, etc. and Visual Studio 2012. The problem I have is to find the executables for these programs so that I can actually use them. Is there a work around or do I still have to pay for them? VS is a pro version and more than 2K last I checked! Am I missing just the files in a folder, that I don't see? I seem to be able to find the files exc for other programs. (Rosetta Stone)

  Really, I don't want to buy these programs and will probably go to another (more accessible) suite of software, if necessary. I can write the code in other IDEs and use another desktop software which ensures the compatibility of the MS products if that's the case.
  Thank you for your time and understanding,
  HH

  You cannot run programs from the old hard disk, they must be reinstalled on the new installation of Windows computers.

  Apart from the home folder for Office who would be in the Program Files folder, directory on the original drive Setup performs a number of other things. It will make hundreds of changes to the registry, install many libraries and sign them and put some files in the Windows directory itself.

  Also, if the version of Office that was on the old computer came with the PC, it's more likely to be an OEM license. As such, it cannot be installed or run on the new computer as a limitation of the original end user license agreement.

• Broken computer and now I can't access Photoshop CS5 Student Edition

  I bought PS CS5 Student Edition for many years.  Last year, my computer crashed and died.  My new computer doesn't have a hard drive - download Photoshop, so I tried downloading it from the Adobe Web site.  The download works fine until I have try to put in my verification code.  Slots require more digits of code I have, and my code also has letters in addition to the number.

  I've seen references to uninstall from previous computers and reinstall on the new, but my old computer is dead I don't know what to try next.

  Bugs/ideas/help would be much appreciated.

  Your serial number will be only numeric characters, 24 of them, so the code you are trying to enter is not what you need to enter