Now ChromeOS can reset itself without erasing your laptop

This week, Google announced it’s rolling retired ChromeOS M131 to non-beta users, bringing with it a useful “Safety reset” diagnostic that lets Chromebook users reset their laptops without wholly wiping them. The update besides introduced a caller “Flash notifications” accessibility enactment to assistance those who mightiness not different easy perceive oregon spot them.

Like Powerwash successful ChromeOS, Safety reset volition hitch the slate cleanable if you’re experiencing machine virus-like behaviour specified arsenic antithetic pop-ups. But wherever Powerwash is simply a afloat mill reset, Safety reset preserves section information and apps, arsenic good arsenic things similar bookmarks and saved passwords, according to a help document astir the feature.

Google besides writes that users tin telephone up the Safety reset dialog container straight by pressing CTRL + Shift + Search + R. Otherwise, you tin find it successful the “Safety and privacy” settings paper oregon by searching Settings oregon Launcher for keywords similar “Pop-up,” “Spam,” oregon “Virus.”

As for the caller Flash notifications setting, it’s disposable successful accessibility settings nether “Audio and captions,” giving an further ocular notification indicator to those who mightiness different miss them due to the fact that they’re hard of proceeding oregon usage surface magnification to work content. Users tin prime the flash’s colour from respective options, and a preview fastener lets them spot what it looks like.