How do I reset my preferences back to their original defaults?

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How to Reset Full-Screen Terminal.app Preferences to Factory Defaults

On an iMac running Mac OS X version 10.7.5 I have accidentally resized Terminal.app to full-screen (272 x 76) and am unable to resize Terminal.app to a smaller size. How do I resize Terminal.app to the factory default size or a size where I can use the mouse to resize Terminal.app?

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You have (at least) wo possibilities: 1) You could click on the zoom button to revert the zoom effect...

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How do I reset my preferences back to the original defaults? Someone said go to "settings" but where's it at?

I'm talking about the original defaults in Yahoo! Music Jukebox. The screen which asks you to rate each category of music was the first screen I encountered, but computer ...show more

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restore your PC to a date that it was working OK.alternatively get regcure

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How do you reset app preferences on an AT&T Galaxy SII?

I'm getting the dreaded, "unfortunately the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped" error that seems to be associated with the Google Play Store.  All of the online discussions I can find about this error, tell you to reset app preferences...

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Your question isn't the clearest, but I am going to infer that you are asking about app defaults. If...

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How to reset Kindle Touch to factory defaults?

My dad's Kindle Touch is in Portuguese now. How can I change it to English or reset it to factory defaults?

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Hi, Wow! this is a challenge. It's hard to follow the on screen menu if you can't read it or even understand...

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How to reset Dell Dimension desktop computer to factory defaults?

I have a dell Dimension Desktop 9100 series. whenever it starts up i get to the logo screen then when it finishes loading it goes to another screen saying: Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run setup utility. At this screen i can't do anything and...

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Try pressing (and holding) the <Ctrl> key and then pressing the <F11> key after powering...

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How can I reset to factory defaults without recovery CDs?

I have a Gateway Model GT5676 and I have so much stuff on my computer, I would like to just reset it all. I have Vista Home Premium 64-Bit SP 1. I don't have any recovery CD's so I would love a way to reset that doesn't require those or to buy them.

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It more than likely has a restore partition built in to the hard drive. The only question is which key...

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When I sign in on Yahoo Messenger, my preferences have been reset to the original settings. Why is this?

Every time I sign in all of my preferences have been reset to the original settings. Can someone please help me figure out why I am having this problem? I have tried uninstalling the program and reinstalling it and that didn't work. I can't think of...

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possibly you are running low memory virtual memory

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Is it possible to reset read only defaults?

So by accident I set all the subfolders and files in the users folders to read only. Well, obviously that was a mistake and I had to undo that. I'm wondering if there is a way to set it back to the defaults, cuz I'm not sure if there were files that...

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I guess we are suppose to guess at the brand, model number, installed operating system of the laptop...

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If I reset my router to factory defaults, will I lose data about ip adresses of computers that used my router?

I suspect that someone has been using my router for wireless internet access and I read you can find that out when you access your router's settings or something like that to view all the ip adresses that used my router , the only problem is that i forgot...

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You can get your router password very easily. The best way to do it is to go to a computer where the...

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How do you reset your user account security permissions to the defaults in Windows 7?

I've really messed up the security permissions ( http://www.pcguru.plus.com/windows7/secu… ) of a whole bunch of different locations. How do you restore these to the defaults in Windows 7 Home Premium?

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You can go to on the Knowledge Base ... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313222 :) This article is for...

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