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How to initiate a System Restore when your PC won’t boot into Windows

Posted on August 27, 2021

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System Restore is a powerful tool for reversing detrimental changes to your PC’s Windows installation.

In a nutshell, System Restore allows you to “roll back” the Windows installation to the state it was in at a time before the detrimental changes were made.

For example, lets say that somehow a critical Windows setting gets changed and your system starts doing strange and unexpected things.

You can usually fix this type of issue by simply using System Restore to roll Windows back to a Restore Point that was created a few days earlier.

System Restore is typically launched from within Windows, but what if the issue at hand is so severe that your PC won’t boot up into Windows at all? [Read more…]

How to ensure that System Restore is turned on in Windows 10

Posted on July 23, 2021

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Have you updated your PC to Windows 10 from an earlier version of Windows at some time in the past?

If so, there’s a very good chance that the System Restore utility was turned off during the update process.

What’s more, I’ve seen plenty of PCs that came from the factory with Windows 10 that had the System Restore utility disabled.

As you probably know, System Restore is a powerful tool that can help you get your Windows machine back into working order if something ever goes haywire with your Windows installation.

When turned on, System Restore (usually) makes it easy to roll your Windows installation back to a previous (working) state if something ever goes wrong during a program installation or some other serious issue arises.

In other words, this awesome tool can really can get you out of rather serious jams. [Read more…]

How to restore your Windows PC from a ‘System Image’ backup

Posted on April 1, 2021

Many of the tips I’ve written explain the importance of creating regular System Image backups in case your PC’s hard drive ever fails or some other catastrophe wipes out your Windows installation.

It really is important to always have a recent backup on hand for those unexpected emergency situations, but one of my blog’s faithful readers recently pointed out that I have never explained how to restore a PC from a System Image backup.

The purpose of this post is to correct that oversight.

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Q&A: How can I create a Standard user account that can use all of my programs in Windows 10?

Posted on May 26, 2020

Question from Aldrena K.: I have an Acer desktop computer running Windows 10.

I have always just used the Administrator account for everything I do on the computer, but I read on your site why that’s a bad idea.

I created a Standard user account for myself, but it only gives me access to the same programs that my son uses on his account.

How can I create a Standard user account for myself that lets me use all of my installed programs?

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]

How to make a Desktop Shortcut for quickly creating a System Restore Point

Posted on August 7, 2019

A while back I wrote a post that explains how to force a Desktop shortcut to always “Open as administrator”.

As an example I mentioned a shortcut that I had created that quickly saves a System Restore Point without having to navigate any of the usual Windows menus.

Several people wrote in asking how to make their own shortcut to create a new Restore Point, so I thought it might be a good idea to write a post explaining how to do it.

Luckily, it’s very easy to make a shortcut for creating a new Restore Point. Just follow the steps below: [Read more…]

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