Now ChromeOS can reset itself with out erasing your laptop computer

This week, Google introduced it’s rolling out ChromeOS M131 to non-beta customers, bringing with it a helpful “Security reset” function that lets Chromebook customers reset their laptops with out completely wiping them. The replace additionally launched a brand new “Flash notifications” accessibility choice to assist those that may not in any other case simply hear or see them.

Like Powerwash in ChromeOS, Security reset will wipe the slate clear when you’re experiencing pc virus-like habits similar to uncommon pop-ups. However the place Powerwash is a full manufacturing unit reset, Security reset preserves native knowledge and apps, in addition to issues like bookmarks and saved passwords, in accordance with a assist doc concerning the function.

Google additionally writes that customers can name up the Security reset dialog field immediately by urgent CTRL + Shift + Search + R. In any other case, yow will discover it within the “Security and privateness” settings menu or by looking Settings or Launcher for key phrases like “Pop-up,” “Spam,” or “Virus.”

As for the brand new Flash notifications setting, it’s obtainable in accessibility settings underneath “Audio and captions,” giving an extra visible notification indicator to those that would possibly in any other case miss them as a result of they’re exhausting of listening to or use display magnification to learn content material. Customers can choose the flash’s shade from a number of choices, and a preview button lets them see what it appears like.