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Liveinjapan Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Restore

I found the line below on the net.

Press the Restore Defaults button if you want to restore all sequences to their factory shipped settings.

Is that grammatically correct?

Could you tell me how "Restore Defaults" button works, in general?

Thanks.


  

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Hi LiJ That sentence seems fine to me. You can restore something to a previous state or condition. If I want to restore the default settings in a program, that in essence means I want to change the current settings to the original settings.

— Yankee

  • Hi LiJ That sentence seems fine to me.
  • You can restore something to a previous state or condition.
  • If I want to restore the default settings in a program, that in essence means I want to change the current settings to the original settings.
  • Or more figuratively, I want to take the settings from current to original.
  • For example, if the default setting for IE Explorer pop-up blocker is "on", and I later decide to turn that function off, then the current setting for the pop-up blocker is not the default setting.
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Hi LiJ

That sentence seems fine to me. You can restore something to a previous state or condition. If I want to restore the default settings in a program, that in essence means I want to change the current settings to the original settings. Or more figuratively, I want to take the settings from current to original.

For example, if the default setting
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YankeeYou can restore something to a previous state or condition.
Yankee want to restore the default settings in a program
I understand how to use the word restore.
YankeeAs to the details of how a "Restore Defaults" button actually manages to do what it does, you'd have to ask an IT sp
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