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 ...

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 - ...

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 can fill up to 20GB of space on a 1TB SSD.

I fixed the storage leak without losing this safety net ...

If you’ve ever had a bad Windows update or a system corruption, you’ll know it can be paralyzing for your OS, or operating system and render it useless. That’s why you need to create a restore point ...

I've reformatted my computer again and have it running SWEET right now. I would like to create a restore point in the system restore just in case I go and screw it up (as I do from time to time). Is ...

A system restore point is a backup copy of important Windows operating system (OS) files and settings that can be used to recover the system to an earlier point of time in the event of system failure ...