April 2025
Beginner
432 pages
11h 36m
English
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Chapter 15
Resetting Your Device
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding the two major types of device resets
Figuring out when you should use each type to reset your device
Resetting your device accordingly
Chapter 14 talks about backing up and why backing up is a critical component of any and every cybersecurity plan. The odds are close to 100 percent that, at some point, you will lose access to some file to which you still need access, and restoring from a backup will be a “lifesaver.” In this chapter, I discuss resetting your computer and teach you what you need to know to successfully reset your device so that it’s (almost) as good as new.
Exploring Two Types of Resets
Sometimes, the easiest way to restore — and to help ensure that none of the problems that forced you to restore in the first place remain — is to start over by resetting your device to factory settings and reinstalling your apps and copying your data files from a backup.
However, even resets that are called “factory resets” often do not really set the device back to an identical state as that in which it came; some significant changes that have been made in the ensuing time will not be undone. For example, in many cases, ...
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