System Restore allows you to roll back your computer settings in case you’ve installed software that causes PC instability or sluggishness. System Restore will not affect personal files such as e-mail ...

Click to viewYour data's trapped on a dead computer. You lost your login password. You never wrote down the product key on a non-working Windows installation. Your ...

Every computer user who uses the computer on a regular basis knows and understands the value of his data. No matter what the situation is, he makes every possible attempt to protect it from any sort ...

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 ...

The System Restore feature has been a part of Windows for decades. In Windows 10 it's still useful for recovering quickly when a new app or device driver causes instability. System Restore works by ...

When it comes to creating a perfect copy of a system disk for future restoration, Lifehacker readers love the open source and versatile Clonezilla. It can't do real-time mirroring like the second and ...

System Restore won’t run on Linda Burgess’ PC. I offer some advice. System Restore automatically backs up the state of Windows and your installed programs (but not your data). When Windows misbehaves, ...

When trying to restore a Windows 11/10 computer, if you receive an error saying An unspecified error occurred during System Restore (0x800700b7), then here is a fix ...

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 ...

Q. When I try to restore the system, the program goes through the routine and after restart, the window opens and I get the restore window informing me that it cannot restore and no changes have been ...

Waycam Technologies, a Lincolnshire-based security specialist, has launched a set of data recovery tools that protect PCs from accidental or malicious data loss by creating a "protected area" on the ...