While there are no messages in the Event Viewer (shame on you guys, Microsoft, could make this a LOT easier to diagnose), the process does leave behind some nice forensic information for us. This one is pretty tricky to solve, as it doesn’t log any messages in the Event Viewer.
When trying to run the Refresh or Reset task, both of which call SystemReset.exe, you experience an error like the following However, sometimes things go awry, and from no fault of our own, we can end up with a system which will refuse to either reset or refresh. I love that smell so much in fact, that I buy a new car every few weeks, or sometimes sleep in cars at the CarMax down the road from my house. Truly awesome, they’re able to refresh the base OS and forklift over your files, giving you that ‘just installed’ smell we all love so much. Windows 10 built on the awesome features of Windows 8, and brought over the very powerful ‘Refresh My PC’ and ‘Reset My PC’ options.
