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 ...

Windows 11 comes with many hidden features that Microsoft has already built into the system, but hasn’t yet activated for ...

For a number of years Microsoft Windows has had a nice feature for recovering from something "bad" using system restore points. These system snapshots can be configured to happen automatically.

Microsoft has changed how Windows 11 manages System Restore points after its June 2025 security update. The update, KB5060842, says that starting with Windows 11 version 24H2, System Restore points ...

Who here has been able to just boot into safe mode, choose a restore point and it will restore Just fine under Boootcamp ? MBP Air, Win 7 X64. EVERYTIME I do this in various shapes or forms, it does ...

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 ...

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 ...

This post offers more suggestions on what you can do if System Restore Points deleted or go missing. It has been suggested that the problem could have been caused by resizing disk partitions with a ...

It seems like a worst-case scenario: Windows 7 gets to the boot screen and stops loading. You just tried to run a restore point, but it didn't work and now Windows won't load at all. You don't have to ...

Being a PC user, you must expect to come face-to-face with seemingly inexplicable behavior. Over the last two decades, I've encountered and fixed multiple issues with my PCs. One way or the other, I ...