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Windows 11’s new Point‑in‑Time Restore acts like a built‑in rewind button for modern Windows problems, letting you roll a machine back to an earlier, working state quickly and with far less friction than a full reinstall. This short‑term snapshot-and-restore system is powered by Volume Shadow...

Microsoft’s new Point‑in‑time Restore introduces a short‑term, full‑system snapshot and rollback capability to Windows — a feature that can rewind a PC to an earlier working state (including the operating system, installed apps, configuration and many local files) without third‑party backup...

Microsoft’s latest recovery tool for Windows 11 — Point‑in‑time Restore — delivers a fast, local rollback that can return a PC to the exact system state it had at a chosen timestamp, restoring the OS, installed apps, settings and many local files without a full disk image or separate backup...

System Restore — Windows’ built‑in safety net — can quietly eat gigabytes of your system drive over time, and if you don’t check it regularly you may be sitting on recoverable space while assuming your disk is simply full. The feature is invaluable when you need to roll back a bad driver or...

Create and Use System Restore Points in Windows 10/11 Difficulty: Beginner | Time Required: 10 minutes Introduction System Restore is a built‑in Windows feature that helps you roll back system files, installed programs, registry settings, and drivers to a previous point in time if something goes...

Create and Schedule System Image Backups and File History in Windows 10/11 Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 30-45 minutes This tutorial shows how to create a full system image and set up File History in Windows 10/11, and how to schedule automated system-image backups using built‑in...

The moment your Windows PC starts whispering “Low disk space,” it isn’t always because you’ve hoarded videos or forgotten to empty the Recycle Bin—sometimes the culprits are ordinary system and application folders that quietly balloon over time. A recent practical roundup identified the usual...

Windows 11 is a technically impressive and visually refined operating system, but it still carries inherited trade-offs—strict hardware gates, opaque telemetry, and a feature set that sometimes prioritizes new aesthetics over practical user control—that older operating systems solved more...

Windows users are often surprised by how quickly system restore points can accumulate, sometimes consuming valuable disk space without clear visibility or direct control from the standard graphical interface. By default, Windows manages these restore points silently, retaining only the latest...

Hi... I've tried many things offered by the net and AI but to no avail. I've been at it for well over 5 hours so I'm not one of those peeps asking for help before trying a gazillion things! Basically I went to restart my machine and it offered me an option to restart or restart with...

In the realm of IT, there's a lingering specter that prays on system administrators: the mysterious disappearance of disk space. This enigma was recently described by an IT professional struggling to understand "Where did my Windows Server's disk space disappear to?" They had conducted typical...

In the digital age, losing important files can feel like being thrown into a black hole without a space suit. Fortunately, Windows 11 comes equipped with a nifty feature known as Volume Shadow Copy that can save you from such a fate. This feature not only keeps backups of your latest files but...

My Windows 7 backup has been failing consistently for some time. The most relevant event log entry seems to be the following: The event ID is 8194 ----------------- Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback interface. hr = 0x80070005, Access is...

Hello guys. I have a server running windows 2012 R2 backup services. The server has a Hyper-V with 3 VMs on it.(C drive) The E Drive has 2 VM's. I want to do a bare metal backup with a externa HD with 3.7TB size available. My drives size are: C: 1.8TB available 150GB E: 650GB available 270GB...

Yes, I know how to create a System Restore Point with built-in dialog or 'wmic' or Powershell. But I want to know if it is possible to create a System Restore Point with the core Volume Shadow Copy tool "vssadmin" as well? Can I similarly at least perform a Restore from a previously created...

Error message: "Windows backup failed to create the shared protection point on the source volumes (0x8078006B). The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System and Application event log for more information." I was attempting to create an image of my notebook computer's hard drive on my...

How can I recover 15 GB of C: partition ssd space that WinDirStat shows as "unknown" and I cannot access? I know this "unknown" 15 GB is real because Windows File Explorer shows there is an unexplained shortage of disk space. Its 15 GB or perhaps more. I don't have a problem accounting for the...

Hi, I have some network shares connected to my client from my server and I want to use File History on my server but I know that's not possible and that's a same it should bee great to run on it. (I'm running Windows Server 2016) What I understand is that then I should use Shadow Copy but...

first off i want to thank you people for being here. this new in the box hp2000notebook was picked up at an estate auction. win 8 is new to me. my old hp 6000?? on win7 lost its screen, so i broke out the new hp2000notebook. fired it up an it wanted to up grade to 8.1, ok go ahead... now...

System: Win 7 Ultimate x64 on an HP Pavilion DV6. My account is the only proper user account on the laptop and is an admin account. When trying to do a system restore, it came up with an error that the Volume Shadow Copy Service was not working, though that error code is irrelevant for the...