Windows 8 is a new operating system that was released in October of 2012. It is a Windows 7-like operating system with some new features and improvements. One of the new features of Windows 8 is the ability to refresh an image in the operating system. This article will show you how to do this. To refresh an image in Windows 8, open the charms bar and select Refresh Image. This will open a window that will show you how to refresh the image. The first step is to choose which image you want to refresh. You can either choose an existing image or create a new one. The next step is to choose which resolution you want to use for your refreshed image. You can either choose a higher resolution or use a lower resolution if you want your images to be smaller or larger than they are currently. You can also choose whether you want your images to be rescaled or not rescaled when refreshing them. The last step is to click on Refresh Image and wait for it to finish refreshing your images. Once it has finished, you can close the window and enjoy your refreshed images!
We have already shown you how to use the Refresh and Reset features in Windows 8, now we are back to show you how you can create a custom refresh image. This means next time you refresh your Windows 8 PC, you can use a custom image instead of the one that shipped with your PC.
When you refresh your PC, all your files as well as Metro applications that you downloaded from the Windows store are kept. This is great, however, all your non-metro applications and PC settings are removed. If you are like me and have a lot of non-metro apps this can be very annoying, but you can fix this by creating a refresh image that already has your apps installed and your settings tweaked.
Creating A Custom Refresh Image
Right-click the bottom left corner of your screen and select Command Prompt (Admin) from the context menu.
To create a custom refresh image we use the recimg.exe utility.
The reason we are using a subfolder on our drive is that you can actually create multiple refresh images and switch between them, to create another image we could do the following:
When you create an image using the /createimage parameter, the image you create is automatically set as the default refresh image. If you have multiple refresh images you can choose the active image by using the /setcurrent parameter.
You can also use the /showcurrent parameter to show the active image.
That’s all there is to it, now you just need to Refresh your PC.
