Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
and besides, recovery from crashes is not always straight forward [yes, even in windows 8/8.1] it all depends what happened, and so you can't even assume it will be quicker - clean images of an OS are often a good starting point, still need to reinstall the software though...
How can I do that? Moreover, the actual reason is that my Norton keeps shutting down all browsers due to some 'threat.' After 2 days of scanning and diagnosing it finally got resolved but I backed up my entire data just to be safe. Now that I have a back-up of it, I might as well format my computer and install the new software.