Another Way to Reset Preferences?

For a long time I've vaguely noticed that one or some of the buttons would change in the Photoshop preferences dialog (e.g., Edit - Preferences - General) when I would Alt-Tab away to another application (e.g., a browser).  I hadn't really paid attention to exactly WHAT was happening, only that something seemed to change.  My attention was always elsewhere.
Well, today I paid attention.  The [Cancel] button is changing to [Reset].  It turns out it does this when the Alt key is pressed (e.g., in my case to do Alt-Tab).
So...  If I choose Edit - Preferences, then press Alt and click the [Reset] button, what would be reset?
-Noel

Hi, Noel
every dialog window in Photoshop does it the same way.
If you press the ALT key the cancel button changes to a reset button.
If you click on the reset button then the changes that you made in this window will be - hmmmm - reset, but the window remains open.
:-) miss_marple

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