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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Desmond T. Lee, Redmond, WA (US);
Vinit Ogale, Bellevue, WA (US);
Keshava Prasad Subramanya, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sri Sai Kameswara Pavan Kumar Kasturi, Bellevue, WA (US);
Hongliu Zheng, Sammamish, WA (US);
Yunan Yuan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory W. Nichols, Bellevue, WA (US);
Stephan Doll, Seattle, WA (US);
Kiran Kumar Dowluru, Redmond, WA (US);
Calin Negreanu, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention provide techniques whereby a user may perform a system reset (e.g., to address system performance and/or reliability degradation, such as which may be caused by unused applications that unnecessarily consume system resources, an attempted un-install of an application that left remnants of the application behind, and/or other causes). In some embodiments, performing a system reset replaces a first instance of an operating system on the system with a new instance of the operating system, and removes any applications installed on the system, without disturbing the user's data.