System recovery

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To perform a system restore, you need to go to the Start menu under Programmes, Accessories, System programs, select System Restore…

Once you have done this, you have two options… You can restore your computer to an earlier point in time, or you can create a restore point yourself… I will first explain how to restore it to an earlier point in time. Because your system regularly creates its own restore points, This happens according to schedules or programme installations.

To do this, click in the box in front of Restore computer to a previous point in time tick the box in front of Restore computer to a previous point in time and click Next.

Now you have to select a restore point.

It is advisable to choose a point at which the computer was still running properly !!! To select this point, click on the desired day on the left, if your system has several points at which it can restore the system If you see it on the right, select a point there and click on Next.

You must now confirm your restore point…. It is important that you close and save all programmes and files beforehand!!! Once you have done this, click on Next.

The computer will now search for the point you have selected, which may take some time, when it has found it do not be alarmed the computer will now shut down your system and while it is doing this it will show you that it is restoring the system to an earlier point in time. This may also take some time so be patient. When it has finished, it will continue to shut down and reboot as if it were restarting. As soon as it has started up again, it will show you that it has completed the restore, click Ok and the system restore is complete.

Now I will explain how to create a system restore point.

To do this, you have to select System Restore in the Start menu as described at the very beginning, only this time you don't tick the Restore computer to an earlier point in time box, but instead select Create a restore point, then click on Next.

Now you just have to enter a name for the restore point in the grey box (in our case I called it Tutorial). A date and time are not required as they are automatically added to the point!!! Then click on Next.

You will now see that a new restore point has been created, with date, time and name. You can use this restore point in the same way as the points automatically created by the system. Now click on close and you're done.