Toribash
It is usually all the garbage that slows down your pc. I know when I perform some maintenance on my computer, it runs a bit more smooth. At one point I had about 5 GBs left on my hard drive, and once I cleared up a lot of space, my computer started to run again.

It is easier if you just sync all of your bookmarks and what not to your chrome account. That way if you can keep all of you bookmarks if this situation ever occurs again. As for the games, I assume you had them on steam so the only problem would be downloading them again.

You should invest in an external hard drive. You can keep all of you excess files and games on it to save space on the computer.
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Originally Posted by souldevilj View Post
Well guys; I used the Windows 8 Refresh feature thinking it meant "refresh"
Now I have a wiped laptop and having to reinstall everything and build up my armada of bookmarks and favorites again.

KILL ME NOW.

At least with your Google profile you recovery your bookmarks at Chrome don't you?
Well, he might not be using Chrome or synced his Google account you know...

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My google automatically synced my account. I find it to be really convenient due to the fact that I have all of my bookmarks saved to a cloud.
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Yeah...
But then I synced my Google account on my sister's laptop and she deleted half of the bookmarks (she didn't know it was online) so... yeah... I had to look for the link to Guardians again...

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Lol, I can't say the same has ever happened to me. I have a whole bunch of random bookmarks. I probably wouldn't even know if someone erased my bookmarks.

The only time I actually go through my bookmarks, is to look for a specific toribash forum page. That is also very rare, due to the fact that you can subscribe to a forum page to see if anything new happened.
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Wait, you can do that? I never knew that...

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Go to the top where it says forum tools, and click subscribe.

Then when you do that, you click user cp to see the subscribed forum/specific page.

It definitely helps you get around the forums faster. I have been using this feature for some time.
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Damn. How have I never known that before?
Btw, has anyone played Borderlands 2? It's a really fun game.

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I am not a fan of Borderlands 2. I thought number 1 was great on the Xbox. My favorite was all of the mods. I was able to kill any monster in one shot, or I was able to freeze the host of the games xbox with another gun. The options were endless.

My answer might be a little biased due to the fact that I have not really played the second game. I played a mission or two, but that was it. I didn't like all of the changes and what not.
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