#Openclaw onboarding trouble

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junior portal
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I set up openclaw on my omnibook Hp laptop, when I got to the onboarding I messed up and clicked no when it asked if I knew how powerful it was. Now my setup seems more complicated, how can I hard reset it and do the onboarding again on windows?

dusty tuskBOT
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tough briarBOT
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You didn’t permanently “mess up” anything — onboarding is just a wizard, and you can rerun it.

Option A (easiest): rerun onboarding and choose Reset

In the same environment where you installed OpenClaw (WSL2 Ubuntu terminal or PowerShell):

openclaw onboard

If it detects an existing setup, the wizard should offer a Reset option.

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/help/faq#how-do-i-completely-reset-openclaw-but-keep-it-installed

Option B (hard reset): wipe local state, then onboard again

This keeps the CLI installed, but clears your local OpenClaw config/state.

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  1. (Optional) See what would be removed:
openclaw reset --dry-run
  1. Full reset (no prompts):
openclaw reset --scope full --yes --non-interactive
  1. Run onboarding again:
openclaw onboard --install-daemon
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Windows note

OpenClaw on Windows is recommended via WSL2 (Ubuntu). If you’re running inside WSL2, the --install-daemon path is the “normal” way to keep it running in the background.

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/platforms/windows

If any of those commands error (like “unknown command”), paste:

openclaw --version

…and tell me whether you’re running it in PowerShell or WSL2.

junior portal
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I am running it in the cmd . I had to download git and node.js in order for that to work.

tough briarBOT
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If you can run openclaw from cmd.exe, you can do the reset + onboarding from there too (same commands).

1) Sanity check (in cmd)

openclaw --version

2) See what a reset would delete (optional)

openclaw reset --dry-run

3) Do the full “factory reset”

openclaw reset --scope full --yes --non-interactive
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4) Run onboarding again

openclaw onboard

That should put you back into the wizard flow.

Windows note (important)

OpenClaw is recommended on Windows via WSL2 (Ubuntu), because background services/daemons and tooling are way smoother there. If you stay on native Windows, you may have to keep a terminal open / manage running it yourself.

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/platforms/windows

If you paste the output of:

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openclaw --version
openclaw status

I can tell you whether you’re on a version where reset/onboard behave as expected and what install mode you’re in.

junior portal
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just got it "open claw onboard" worked like charm thank you sir