Microsoft releases two new updates each year packed with new features for Windows computers. The first in 2020 came in May, but it hid a surprise that not all users liked. In addition to including new features, Windows has the disposal of one of its most classic functions.

It is possible that you did not know Windows Fresh Start, many users do not get to use it in their entire lives, but it is a very important function of this operating system. As its name suggests, it is a clean boost, a quick method to clean the inside of the computer, but it has disappeared with the last update.

It has been in Windows since 2017 and allows (allowed, better said) to format and reinstall the operating system in a simple and fast way. It cleaned the entire computer from the installed applications, both those that we have installed and those that came pre-installed, leaving the user's data and files, that is, it did not affect the contents of the hard drive.

As indicated in HTNovo, the May 2020 update of Windows 10 2004 does not contain this cleaning function. It is, but it doesn't work. You can find Fresh Start in the settings, but when you try to access it, it sends you to an informative website and thus in an infinite loop in which there is no option to activate this cleaning system. 

At the moment the reasons for this change are not known. Some media point out that, by deleting applications from computer manufacturers, they would have complained and Microsoft would have backed down with this function. For many people who work testing beta applications or beta versions, this is a good way to restore your computer as it was in the beginning without losing user data and other important files. 

The truth is that from HTNovo, they suggest another application that could inherit the capabilities of Fresh Start to confirm that it has come to an end. The 2004 version of Windows 10 introduces cloud recovery that restores the device and reinstalls Windows 10 updated to the latest released public version, removing all applications and programs not included in Windows and providing the ability to keep personal files or not and clean or not the units.

In the end, the function similar to that offered by Fresh Start, but from Cloud Recovery and with certain variations. The main difference is that Cloud Recovery does not remove Bloatware, that is, the applications pre-installed by the PC manufacturer, something that those who used Fresh Start regularly may miss.