Quick Answer: How to Reset Mac Os X?

Step-by-step Guide to Reset Mac to Factory Settings

• Restart in Recovery Mode.
• Erase Data from Mac Hard Drive.
• a. In the macOS Utilities window, choose Disk Utility and click Continue.
• b. Choose your startup disk and click Erase.
• c. Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format.
• d. Click Erase.
• e. Wait until the process is finished.
• Reinstall macOS (optional)

MacOSX Lion – Reinstall your OS without installation disc

• Turn your Mac on, while holding the CMD + R keys down.
• Select “Disk Utility” and click on Continue.
• Select the startup disk and go to the Erase Tab.
• Select the Mac OS Extended (Journaled), give a name to your disk and click on Erase.
• Disk Utility > Quit Disk Utility.

How to reset your Dock to its default

• Open Terminal (located in the Utilities folder).
• Type (or copy and paste) defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock.
• Hit return.

Apple Safari:

• Click on “Safari” located in the menu bar in the top left hand corner of the screen.
• Click on “Reset Safari”
• Place a checkmark beside all available options.
• Press the “Reset” button.
• Click on the Hard Drive icon located on the desktop.
• Browse to “Users > (Users Home) > Library > Safari folder”

How to reset Launchpad on Mac

• Click on your desktop.
• Click on the Go menu.
• Press and hold the Option key.
• Click on Library.
• Double click on the Application Support folder.
• Double click on the Dock folder.
• Drag all files ending in .db into the trash.
• Click on the Apple icon in the top left corner of your screen.

How do I wipe my Mac and reinstall?

Select your startup drive on the left (typically Macintosh HD), switch to the Erase tab and choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the Format drop-down menu. Select Erase and then confirm your choice. Quit out of the Disk Utility app, and this time choose Reinstall OS X and Continue.

How do I do a clean install of OSX?

So, let us begin.

1. Step 1: Clean up your Mac.
2. Step 2: Back up your data.
3. Step 3: Clean Install macOS Sierra on your startup disk.
4. Step 1: Erase your non-startup drive.
5. Step 2: Download the macOS Sierra Installer from the Mac App Store.
6. Step 3: Start the Installation of macOS Sierra on the Non-startup drive.