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Laptop problems: what to check and how to reset a laptop

Pick what your laptop is doing and open the page for that fault.

What is your laptop doing? How to reset a laptop

What is your laptop doing?

Pick the one that best describes the fault.

Faults

Screen and battery

Before you call

How to reset a laptop

These steps can help when a laptop freezes or stops responding, but they won't fix a faulty part.

  1. Force the laptop off

    Hold the power button until the laptop turns off, then switch it on again.

    This also restarts a laptop that won't wake up from sleep or hibernation.

  2. Unplug the charger and all accessories

    Pull out the charger, USB stick, mouse and external drive. Wait a moment, plug the charger back in, then switch the laptop on.

    Take the battery out only if it's removable, and put it back before switching on.

  3. Reset Windows to its starting state

    The option is in the Windows settings. It deletes programs, and depending on your choice, your files too. Save them to another drive or stick first.

Reset didn't help, or Windows won't start at all?

Windows reinstallation

How your laptop gets to us

  1. Call us

    Or message us on WhatsApp and describe what your laptop is doing.

  2. We pick up your laptop

    Free, at your address.

  3. We tell you when it will be ready

    Roughly, once we've picked up the laptop.

Outside that area you can send us your laptop by post.

After the check we tell you the price, and we only start work once you confirm it. If you have us do the repair, the check is included in the price.

How we work

Not sure what's wrong with your laptop?

Tell us what it does, or what it doesn't do, and since when. We arrange the collection in the same conversation.

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