Push-Button Reset WHAT'S it FOR?

Question

I just did a REFRESH of my Acer ATC-105-UR10

After it came back to life I went looking the system to see if it set up correctly and I found this under Protection Settings when you go to Configure System Restore.

After Speaking to ACER’s technicial support.  I changed the settings for the SYSTEM Protection back to the way it was after the hard drive was REFRESHED.

AFTER I Did the Refresh.  I actually set PUSH BUTTON RESET to “ON”, since I thought it should be ON and protecting!

After the Reset of the PC when I Went to Recovery and looked at

CONFIGURE SYSTEM RESTORE it was set like this:

Available Drives       Protection

Acer (C) (System)     ON

Push Button Reset   OFF

I then changed “Push Button Reset” to “ON”.

I thought I better call Acer, and 2 technicians, one a supervisor, told me to set “Push Button Reset” to OFF again, since that is the way the technicians set this up in order to not damage the hard drive.

Since when it was Refreshed it was OFF, they said LEAVE IT AS YOU FOUND IT!

I HOPE THIS IS CORRECT!!

Here is how it looks NOW: (IS THIS CORRECT???  What is PUSH BUTTON RESET for anyway???)

Is this correct?  Will it enable me to REFRESH my PC again if I need to?

Answer 1

Your settings are correct.   I will try to explain it in simple terms. 

System protection is a procedure where the operating system makes a point to which it can restore in case of certain types of error.  This is called a restore point and it will allow you to restore certain windows files back to this point without affecting your documents.  Normally Windows will automatically make a restore point before installing upgrades or if you install new programs.

If you make a change or install a bad program you can click on the System Restore button in your picture above and restore your operating system back to just before this.  It is not 100% reliable but is worth having the option.

Push botton reset is nothing at all to do with it.  This drive contains a backup to allow you to reset your system to your original delivered state (either with or without your documents) and you certainly don't want it to change.  You use this in catastrophique failure (when you don't know what else to do) or if you want to sell your computer.

Leave it off.  It will not damage your drive if you leave it on but to make sure a future refresh or reset works do as ACER says and leave it turned off.