How to: Reset your Windows 11 system
**Resetting**, is a process that reinstalls Windows 11, but lets you choose whether to keep your files or remove them, and then reinstalls Windows. You can reset your PC from Settings, the sign-in screen, or by using a recovery drive or installation media.

**Reset your PC from Settings**

   1. Select Start > Settings  > System  > Recovery .
2.  Next to **Reset this PC** , select **Reset PC**. Then, select Keep my files, choose cloud or local, change your settings, and set Restore preinstalled apps? or No.
3. Click the Keep my files option.
4.  * **Cloud download:** Download a fresh copy of the installation from the cloud and reinstall Windows 11. However, this option will not restore the tools, apps, and configuration that came with the original image provided by the manufacturer.
       * **Local reinstall:** Uses the files already available to reset the computer. If this is a branded device (such as Dell, ASUS, Lenovo, etc.), this process will restore the factory drivers, settings, and tools.
5. Click the Reset button.
**Note:** You will need to do Sytem Updates when this process is finished.