Why Create a Restore Point:
- Quick System Recovery: The primary purpose of creating a restore point is to enable quick and easy system recovery. If a recent change adversely affects your system’s stability, you can revert to the restore point, undoing any problematic alterations.
- Minimize Data Loss: Restoring to a previous state helps minimize the risk of data loss. While it won’t recover personal files, it can protect your system files and settings, preventing the need for a complete reinstall of the operating system.
- Troubleshooting: When troubleshooting issues, having a restore point allows you to systematically eliminate potential causes. By returning to a known working state, you can identify whether the problem is related to recent changes or if it’s an underlying issue.
- To Create a restore point: type “create restore point” in the search bar. In the suggested topics that pops up, click on Create a Restore Point. The System Properties box will open. First, under Protection Settings, make sure System Protection is turned on. Then click on “Create” and follow the directions to name the restore point you are about to create. Any name will do . The date of the restore point will automatically be added for easy identification.
- Windows, from time to time, will actually create it’s own restore point if it determines that the update it installs may cause issues with your computer.
- To restore your computer using System Restore, enter System Restore, just like in item #4 above. Click on System Restore, then “Next” to enter the saved restore points choices .After choosing your restore point, you can view the affected programs by clicking on ” scan for affected programs” at the bottom right.
- This may take some time so don’t interrupt the process
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