Sometimes problems happen on your computer and you have no idea what
happened, what went wrong and how to reverse it. Luckily there's a service
built into Windows going back several versions that will allow you to undo
whatever happened and put it back to the way it was before the problem existed.
So in this video I'm going to explain the options around that, how to use it, how to
make sure it's already enabled as it should be and all the other limitations as well.
So all this coming up. Stick around.
okay so the first thing you know is if you are expecting to restore your system
this only works on workstation computers. So for example if it's a server, you're
not going to be able to just undo whatever changes happened on a server
operating system. There is so much complexity with the server that that
feature is not available. You'd have to go in and specifically modify the
settings and fix the server manually. You can't just do this on a server so anyway
with that said most of the time it's a workstation computer that we're talking
about, so any user can do this at any time and I'm gonna show you how to find this.
There's two different ways to do it. One was just getting used to the old way
from like back in Windows 7 and then looking at the new way through Windows 10.
So let's first have a look at what I was kind of used to through Windows 7
but using Windows 10. So have a look at my screen.
So if I go down the start button and
we'll search for the control panel. So in the control panel you can search for
system and actually that's not even the way I was going to do that. So you
could go through this way and the other thing is if you right click on the start
button you can go to system as well and that's a shortcut to get the same thing
although it actually brings you to the new control panel and then there's
system info up here and when you click on that then it will bring you to this screen.
So in this window here we've got system protection and if we click on that,
we have all the options here to do the
System Restore and create all the options.
The other way is if you go through the Start menu
go to the control cog there you can type in restore and
you want to make sure it's not reset this PC that's not what we're doing here
because that would do a couple of options as far as wiping your system
clean preserving the data or wiping the data but it would remove all your
programs as well. We don't want to do that. So it would be recovery, but in this
view it actually separates everything. So from creating a the restore point
opening it to do a restore or configuring it, but when you go into for
example opening restore it just goes straight into restoring or configuring
it will bring us to the other screen. So I like going through the first option
what we had so we can see everything all in this one screen. So whichever way you
get to it you can still have access to all the features. So first of all seeing
the C Drive your main system Drive it should say on under protection so you
know that it's actively monitoring and creating restore points automatically
when needed and as an another way of checking you can click on system restore
and so you're going to do a restore which is something else to show you how
to restore, go to next and it does warn you actually that it may help fix some
of the problems and it doesn't affect any of your documents, pictures, or
personal data. so you're not going to lose any of your information, only
programs that were installed will get uninstalled anything that got removed
will get put back in but it doesn't affect changes made to documents,
pictures, videos, or any other personal information you have. So here it
will give you a list of the different restore points what time date and time
when it was done and how that restore point was created. If it was created by
Windows automatically on some kind of scheduled
basis or it was created by a program that before it got uninstalled it would
create a restore point for you. So you would be able to highlight that and hit next.
Now you could see potentially a bunch more options for restore points as
well there may be a button here saying to show more options if there are any
and when you hit next it's gonna confirm that your computer's going to be
restored to the state it was in before this date and time and it could
potentially change your password back to the way it was before if your password
was changed at that time. So if your password doesn't work it may be the old
password and that's why it's also recommending to create a password reset
disk which would be another video here. So that's it if you hit finish which I'm
not going to do it's gonna reboot the computer, go through the recovery, come
back to the login screen and when it's done it'll pop up a message saying that
it was restored successfully or it wasn't. now one of the things that I
found here is that if it sometimes says it restored successfully it still didn't
fix the problem or I've also had it where it said it did not complete the
restore successfully but somehow it fixed the problem. so I don't understand
why that would do that but I've seen it happen on a number of occasions.
So regardless of what it says if it was successful or not
check it out see if the problem has been resolved from doing that restore point
and if it didn't work you can go back to other restore points and run them going
back slowly from the most current to the older ones and see where it finally will
fix the issue. If none of them work you're gonna have to unfortunately try
and do some other type of repair methods.
so going back to the main screen here, we had the system restore button to
actually run a restore, you can see that it's on and for which drives you can
create a restore point and just type it in here;
and it just may take a moment
depending on the speed of your computer and how much there is to backup
it'll make that restore point but it usually doesn't take more than a few seconds and
it tells you it's been created successfully. If you want highlighting
the drive that you're gonna create the protection on, go to configure, you can
make sure that it says is turned on which it did say on the previous screen
or you can disable it if you don't want to have restore on. The only reason you
may not want to have a system restore turned on is that you're low on disk
space and you don't want to be having that on but it's really good to save
your butt in case something happens here and if you're limited on space this is
where you can choose how much space on your drive you want to designate towards
system restores. So you can drag the slider it tells you the current usage
and what percentage of the drive is available that you want to
Reserve for system restores and if you want to delete all the restores for the
drive and start over you can just hit the delete button here and it'll take
everything out and you can start over fresh. That's good if you are really
running out of drive space and want to start over with that.
So that is pretty much it with doing a system restore
So you can see that it's very easy to
reverse the process after certain things unfold on the computer that you're
unsure of what happened and you want to be able to put that back to the way it
was you can just go here click the button and everything is back to normal again.
So that's it for this quick tutorial. Hopefully you guys liked it
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