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System Restore is a Windows service that runs in the backgrouns and creates restore points, or snapshots, of your operating system every day and at other times. If Windows 8 starts displaying problems ...

System Restore is a long-standing feature on Windows 11. Its purpose is to create snapshots of the computer's current working state and save them as "restore points" when specific events are triggered ...

When you upgrade to Windows 8 there may be situations where your personal documents are not transferred to the new version of Windows. These reasons may include permission issues on the files or ...

Have you ever wanted a do-over? Ever wished that you could just erase the day and pretend it never happened? Well, human time travel still exists only in science fiction, so you’ll have to wait for ...

If your computer is on the fritz, acting weird, or behaving sluggishly, you may be able to revert to a time in your PC’s history when it was symptom free, using System Restore in Windows. System ...

Keeping aside how user-friendly Windows-based systems are, everybody will agree that maintaining it cannot be overlooked. We may run into serious problems that need immediate troubleshooting. If the ...

Microsoft now sets a 60-day expiration for System Restore points on Windows 11. System Restore points previously aimed for 90 days, but often expired much sooner. Enabling System Restore is a valuable ...

The operating system's built-in safety net can be a quick and easy way to recover from a PC problem, but it too can fail. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff ...