ZDNET's key takeaways Soft restart fixes most Roku glitches without erasing your settings.Factory reset wipes everything and ...

Whether you’re planning to upgrade to the new iPhone or are experiencing some problems with your current model, knowing how to restart iOS from scratch is a tool you need in your wheelhouse. If it’s ...

Whether you're ready to sell your Android or you've got to get it repaired, you'll want to see how to restore your phone to its original factory flavor of Android. Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt ...

Your business might need to restore an ASUS laptop to its factory settings for a variety of reasons. Formatting the hard drive and reinstalling the operating system ...

Resetting an iPad can help in several ways. It can fix software-related issues, clear memory, and storage, and reset the device to its original factory settings. This can be especially useful if the ...

After you’ve been using the same phone for many months, or many years, it can start to feel slow, sluggish and even start to act up. A quick way to fix this is to do a soft reset, or even restoring to ...

You can instruct Windows 8 to restore the computer to its original state from within the operating system itself; you no longer need to boot to a recovery partition ...

Always remember to do a backup of your data because you may lose it in the process. Speaking of the process, it may take quite a lot of time, so it's better to keep your PC plug-in to charge. N.B.

You bought a smartphone so it could become your external brain, filled with all the phone numbers, links, contacts, and data you don’t really want–or need–to keep in your head. So why would you want ...

Whether you've run into technical glitches on your phone, or you've sold it and want to make sure the new owner can't access your data, a factory reset is a useful trick to know. Here's what you ...