I’m not answering a reader’s question here. I just felt that these basic instructions needed to be somewhere easy to find. Windows’ built-in system backup program, System Restore, allows you to revert ...

Microsoft’s restore point feature is a great safety net if something goes wrong with your PC. It allows you to revert your system back to a previous state, immediately providing a solution to any ...

It is also not creating restore points on it's own. There's 18Gb free on my drive - I also went into the Control Panel and restarted the service several times - indicated the service is running fine - ...

Point-in-time restore is a new system restore feature in Windows 11. It lets you revert your PC to the exact state it was at an earlier point in time in minutes. You ...

Here's my essential Windows 11 update safety checklist, along with instructions on how to recover your PC if anything goes ...

If HP Support Assistant can’t create a System Restore Point before installing or updating any HP drivers or software, then this post will help you. HP Support Assistant updates HP drivers & software ...

Windows Registry or simply registry is a repository that stores low-level configurations and settings associated with the Windows operating system and its various programs. It’s one of those system ...

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 ...

System Restore regularly backs up your Windows installation, but the backups soon disappear. Robert Fiorini wants to know if there’s a way to save them permanently. Windows’ built-in System Restore ...