There Was A Problem Resetting Your PC In Windows 10 – 2019

The following post has all the possible workarounds to troubleshoot there was a problem resetting your pc in Windows 10.

Windows 10 is the best operating system in the Windows operating system lineup. The company has added all the possibilities into it to deal with all kind of situation. It has useful apps to get started, settings and option to manage it for best performance.

It also has various troubleshooters to deal with multiple bugs and issues. Whenever there is a problem in the operating system users can take help of these troubleshooters to fix the issues. If troubleshooter fails to fix the issue, you can reset Windows 10 machine; mostly this fixes almost all the problems.

There Was A Problem Resetting Your PC in Windows 10

But in exceptional cases, reset feature also fails to fix the issue ending up with a pop-up showing users error message. The full error message reads:

There was a problem refreshing your PC.

In case, you’re also facing the same issue in your Windows 10 machine; then you can try the following workaround to troubleshoot the issue. So without further delay why don’t you start reading about them:

1. Reboot your machine

Geekermag suggests you all the time that before following any workaround to troubleshoot the issue in Windows operating system, try to reboot your Windows 10. The same process fixes most of the issues.

2. Disable and Enable Recovery Environment

Some users suggest that disabling and enabling the Recovery Environment fixes the issue. Here is how you can do that:

Launch the Elevated command prompt and type the following commands back to back and press enter:

To Disable Recovery Environment 

reagentc /disable

Wait until the ‘Operation Successful‘ message appears.

To Enable Recovery Environment 

reagentc /disable

Wait until the ‘Operation Successful‘ message appears.

Now type ‘Exit‘ to exit the command prompt window.

Reboot your machine and try to reset the machine

3. Do a System File Scan

Launch the Elevated command prompt and type the following command in the terminal:

sfc /scannow

Now try to reset your Windows 10 PC

In case, after following above step, the machine still fails to reset the system, then again launch the Command terminal and type following commands back to back:

cd %windir%\system32\config
ren system system.001
ren software software.001

At last type exit and press enter to exit the Command prompt window.

Reboot your machine

Try to reset your machine. I hope this will fix the Windows 10  there was a problem resetting your PC. If this method also fails, try the next workaround.

4. Reset using Advanced Startup Options

Some users suggested that when they reset the system using Advanced Startup Options the process completely flawlessly without giving an error message. You can also try that, here is how you can:

First of all access the Advanced Startup Options menu in Windows 10. In the Troubleshoot screen, you need to click on ‘Reset your PC‘ instead of Advanced options.

In no second this will start the Resetting process.

5. Reset using Bootable USB Stick

The Windows operating system is so flexible that you can also use Windows 10 bootable USB stick to reset the machine. Check the steps discussed in the following video:

During the process, you will require 

You need to under what edition you have installed, version and the system type or the architecture. By those details create a Windows 10 installation media – Check out this video to create one yourself.

After the successful reboot, try to reset your system.

6. Clean Installation of Windows 10

In case, none of the workarounds help you in fixing the there was a problem resetting your PC, then the last resort is to perform a clean installation of Windows 10

For step by step instructions check this Microsoft Answer thread.

That’s it!

There is no doubt that one of the methods discussed above will fix the issue there was a problem resetting your PC in Windows 10.

Let me know in the comments if this blog post helpful to your or not?

Viney Dhiman

Himachali, Mechanical Engineer, Snooker Lover, Avid drinker of Scotch, Content Creator, Traveller and Shorter than you (probably).