How to Clean My PC and Make it Run Faster - Free When you buy a PC or Laptop, either new or pre-owned, you pretty much have something that is ready to go, straight out of the box, and you start to modify the machine to suit your needs or personal requirements. Firstly, if you require a powerful machine for video or audio editing, or online gaming, you are going to be purchasing a powerful, and probably expensive laptop or desktop. If you want an all round utility machine, then it's going to be a notebook of some kind, and if you want something that is really only for internet use, then it might be a sub-notebook or net-book (a sub-notebook is pretty much a net-book that has a dvd drive) If you have a name brand laptop, such as Acer, Asus, Toshiba, etc. you might have the ability to use a built in recovery program. With Acer machines, HP, some Dells, you can run the recovery software to return the machine to factory condition, but you also have the option