Sorry if this is a dumb question, I keep getting mixed answers whenever I search for the answer so I just want to be sure.
I accidently turned something on in windows and now one of the games I play gets a lot less frames than usual so I want to reinstall. I dont mind losing my personal files, but I want to know if reinstalling completely resets all of my windows settings, nvidia geforce settings, etc.
Any overall advice or details on what reinstalling does exactly would be greatly apprechiated.
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you could also just reset the settings in recovery settings
U could try a restore point first before all of this
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If you format and start fresh yes it’s like a new out of the box computer.
Get a external hard drive and copy your personal files over.
Everything is in C:\Users\your username
Backup your bookmarks, Restore Windows but first try the System Restore and go back before the issue happened.
Chrome: https://www.howtogeek.com/440339/how-to-back-up-and-restore-your-chrome-bookmarks-locally/
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer
Use System Restore
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-system-restore-a5ae3ed9-07c4-fd56-45ee-096777ecd14e
Recovery options in Windows
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/recovery-options-in-windows-31ce2444-7de3-818c-d626-e3b5a3024da5