Convenient, Effective & Low-Cost PC Services

Affordable Donated & Refurbished Laptop PCs

The PC StartFresh service is identical to the Refresh service, only instead of re-imaging the customer’s current drive, a new low-cost replacement solid-state drive is purchased by the customer and imaged to replace the current drive. For customers with an electromechanical HDD drive, the performance, reliability, and boot speed increase will be significant. If the current drive is still readable, they can simply drag and drop any files or folders that they wish to keep from their old drive using an external drive cable once the service is completed. Once again, once booted and online, our software will access and use the customer’s current Windows license key stored in the BIOS to activate their new Windows 11 installation.

Great Results Every Time – As with our Restart service, all bloatware, malware, inadvertent downloads and any other software issues are gone. The PC will now boot and run faster than when purchased with a newer and faster drive now installed. The “After Your PC Service” PDF placed on their desktop shows them how to set up their “like new” PC and how to protect it from cyber threats.

Typical service candidate – The PC is between three and eight years old, has either an electromechanical hard drive or a solid-state drive and is not physically damaged. If the PC is running Windows 10, check before offering the service to make certain that the laptop is upgradable to Windows 11. These requirements can be found on our “Refurbishing Laptops” Page.

Important Service Note: The customer’s former drive must always be returned to them to protect their data privacy. This drive has been unaltered and can potentially be used as an external backup drive.

During the Covid-19 pandemic in our search for refurbished laptops for students we discovered an almost endless potential supply of refurbishable PCs. We nicknamed these “Closet PCs.”

What is a Closet PC? It is a former laptop PC that stopped booting or powering on due to either software issues, drive issues, or a dead power cord. These are not physically damaged PCs; they are PCs that were stashed away because private data is locked inside them that the owner wishes to protect. PC magazine estimates there are over 50 million of these laptops in homes nationwide with millions more being added every year.

Our PC Drive Recovery Service is a fast and simple way for a Closet PC owner to recover pictures and other data that they thought had been lost forever, while at the same time freeing up that former laptop, now drive and data free, to either be refurbished or ethically recycled.

The service is fast and simple and should be performed with the customer at the table or counter if possible. The laptop is simply opened, and the drive is removed. The drive is then connected using an external cable to the customer’s current laptop to see if it is readable. If it is, they can drag and drop any files or folders that they wish to keep. If it is not, then they can send the drive for data recovery to a reputable data recovery provider such a Drive Savers. 

Important Service Note: The customer’s former drive must be returned to them to protect their data privacy. This drive has been unaltered and can also be potentially used as an external backup drive.

Our History

PCs For All was launched based on the experience that we gained developing and licensing, the previous version of our FreshStart automated PC upgrade software. Several years and over $4M in product development and marketing was invested to make this proprietary software available to PC service providers through a former for-profit company named CyberSpa. 

Two things have happened since the pandemic that resulted in our decision to close CyberSpa In 2022 and to launch our non-profit company PCs For All. The first was the massive increase in the need for devices to be used for remote learning and work as schools and offices closed. The second was the decision by most schools, purely for cost reasons, to provide Chromebooks not Windows laptops to their students. While this decision was understandable from a financial standpoint it is simply common knowledge that a Chromebook is not an equivalent or effective substitute for a Windows laptop PC or MAC.

We believe that the most affordable and effective solution to this problem going forward is to increase the production of refurbished Windows laptop PCs in the US from the thousands produced today to the millions that are needed. We also believe that these laptops need to be priced less than the cost of a new Chromebook.

PCs For All is relying on both our software and our many years of experience working with the PC service industry to create a new nationwide network of service providers that are willing to deliver our affordable services to those in need, and to become their local community’s own low-cost refurbished laptop PC provider.

The following photos display some of the companies that we partnered with in the past to successfully upgrade over 100,000 consumer Windows PCs. These include companies such as UBreakiFix, Staples, and Micro Center Stores.