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How to Restore your System
If you have recently installed a program and your system
became persistently unstable or because of a faulty driver or for
unknown reason,you can try System Restore to bring your System back to a
point where you know it was working fine and this can be done without
involving any of your personal data.The only hassle could be about some
program that you have installed and, obviously, taking your system to a
previous date ,you'll have to install it again.But
leave this as last resort ,first you may just uninstall the program or
rollback only the driver i(see How to manage Drivers)f you suspect an update failed.
To Configure Windows System Restore
Figure
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Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 4
- Click on Start /Control Panel/ System .
- On the first window click Advanced System setting in
the left pane and then in System Protection tab (See Fig.1)
- In Check the box near the disk you want System restore
create the restore point and click Create button (see Fig
1)
- Type a brief description for the restore point and then click Create
in the System Protection dialog box and finally click Apply or OK(See
Fig.1)
To restore your System to a certain Point
- Save what you are doing and exit all programs.
- Click Start / All Programs / Accessories / System Tools /
system Restore or click System Restore from the
System Protection tab (See Fig.1)
- In the first window of the wizard click Next(see Fig
2)
- In the second one choose the restore point that you want to use
and click Next(See
Fig.3)
- In the next window confirm your choice and
,if it's ok, click finish.Your computer will restart at the previous point.Check
if it runs fine(See
Fig.4)
Tips
- If the restore process didn,t fix ypur problem ,you can bring your system
further back or undo the system restore.
- System Restore needs at least 300 MB of free disk space.
- also,don't rely on System restore to protect your computer from viruses
because in most of the cases when you find out about having a virus on your
computer it's probably too late and the virus has already spread out and
infected parts of the system that System restore doesn't touch.
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