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-====== ​Laptop Software Policy ​====== +======How to reset your laptop to the Windows 10 factory image======
-With the exception of the following software, graduating students are responsible for deleting/​removing all other institutionally owned software from their laptops upon leaving the College.+
  
-  * Current MS Operating system (need to buy media for ONE home use machine) +Before doing the steps below make sure you have all your data backed up on an external source i.e. thumb drive, external hard drive, or cloud storage. ​ This process will delete all data and user accounts. ​ When completed your laptop will be like it was out of the box from Dell.  We recommend using this method ​to “refresh” you laptop to give it a longer life after graduation. 
-  ​* Current version Microsoft Office Products (need to buy media for ONE home use machine) +  ​- Make sure it is plugged into power 
-  ​* Freely available or open source software+  - Now, click on the Start menu and type “Reset This PC” Click Enter 
 +  - Click on Get Started 
 +  - Next, click on Remove Everything 
 +  - Click on Change Settings 
 +  - Click on the toggle so that it says On. It should say “Remove files and clean the drive.” Click Confirm 
 +  - Check that it says “Remove files and clean the drive.” Click Next, then click Reset 
 +Once it reaches 100% you will see a black screen saying “A configuration change was requested ​to clear this computers TPM” you want to press F12 to clear the TPM 
 +Your laptop will now be ready to setup. ​ It will walk you through creating a new account. ​ 
  
 +Once the reset process is complete you will need to setup your system, simply follow the onscreen instructions. ​ If you are signing in with a Microsoft account that account will be used via Microsoft support for password recovery.
 +If you don’t have a Microsoft account you want to use, we recommend making a secondary local administrator account as a backup in case you forget the password for your primary account. ​ You can do this by doing the following:
  
-Microsoft Security Essentials is free antivirus/​antimalware product provided by Microsoft that  + 1. Click Start , then type “users"​. 
-should serve most students needs+ 
 + 2. Expand the **Local Users and Groups section**. 
 + 
 + 3. Select **Users**, and then **Action** at the top of the window, and click **New User**. 
 + 
 + 4. Create username and password for the account and click **Create**. 
 + 
 +5. Click on **Groups** on the left in the **Computer Management** window, then double click **Administrators**. 
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 +6. On the next window click **Add**, type in the name of the new account you just made and click **Okay**.
  
-Please note that all network based applications that connect to a server for a license key will no  
-longer work. These include: PSpice, Matlab, Solidworks, Cosmos, Maple, Visual NasTran, PTC,  
-Working Model and Femlab.