@Shawn yes make the users wrong for not understanding Windows 8's arcane messages. Microsoft can do no wrong (sarcasm.)
Raul Freitas
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(not a Microsoft apologist)
For the record Windows 8 is worse than both Vista and ME.
Can I undo a refresh on windows 8, I have no restore points but would like to go back 24hours?
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I've recently got a new computer with Windows 8, I was having trouble with it and decided to refresh to clean up all the bits and pieces I'd added to start again. The windows office package was installed recently by partner before he went away as he bought two licences and it has now gone.
Can I undo the refresh in any way? I have tried and tried but it seems there were no restore points. Very grateful for any advice as have just managed to get some work for first time this year and need word, excel etc.
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No restore points = no going back. I don't think that you can go back anyway, certainly there is no easy way.
Your other stuff will have to be re-installed..
If you are going to need Refresh in the future, make a CUSTOM Refresh image that better reflects what is installed and running. The new image is not perfect but better than the default Refresh..
http://www.howtogeek.com/108944/how-to-create-a-custom-refresh-image-in-windows-8/
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Anonymous
2013-05-21T18:40:59+00:00 I fell into this mistake as well. "Refresh" sounds like reloading a web page - nor erasing everything all your programs. Geez, it even deleted my entire windows Office suite -their own software. All my drivers were erased; my touchpad didn't even function after this "refresh". I had to download everything and reinstall my entire system - from printer drivers, software, contacts, programs, updates, the whole system. The warning is totally misleading; implies a disk clean-up type of procedure. Doesn't even state that no restore point is in place. All I can say is always backup your data!
Me too- and I am POSITIVE it says w/o removing files...
I CAN'T BLV THE ENTIRE OFFICE AND NORTON SECURITY WAS WIPED.
REFRESH---does sound like a quick refresh to help performance not RECOVER geez...sooo angry
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Anonymous
2013-05-17T17:50:26+00:00 What a terrible disappointment. Again a misleading program that has wiped out everything. Very frustrating and completely unnecessary. I would have never done the "refresh" if I knew it would wipe out all my apps, software, etc. I am way over Microsoft. MAC here I come!
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Anonymous
2013-02-01T22:03:30+00:00 I am so mad right now. What a rotten, misleading thing this "REFRESH" was. I have lost programs and files, and I don't know what to do. Why can't there be a restore like there used to be, where you just went back and picked a date and everything goes back? You have to know SO much to run a pc anymore, it makes me afraid to do anything. I hate Windows 8.