system restore

I have been imaging my system to avoid having to install. It comes in handy as long as the drive is healthy. Should I keep a clone also in case of drive failure or is it better to clean install when the drive fails..

Recently I ran into a BSOD loop which made me restart my computer many many times by hand because sometimes my computer froze instead of showing BSOD, now after I managed to fix it my computer is REALLY REALLY slow, tried so many things chkdsk /f sfc /scannow removed hiberfil.sys (to clear...

Hi, everyone, In search of a problem that was causing Win 10 to lock up on my XPS13 9343, I enabled driver verifier. Predictably, this is now generating BSODs. This is the expected diagnostic behavior, I gather. The problem is, I have not been able to to get into Windows in any mode that will...

Hello all... Let me say from the beginning that this is my fault. I have several Digital To Analog converters attached via USB to my Windows 10 Machine. I am running version 21H1 with the latest update being KB4023057. I play music and also various sounds through these devices. Even though...

Firstly windows media player was crashing when ripping cd's, now office and other programs are crashing. I updates up to date and plenty of free disk space. I have tried the fixes for WMP and also done 3 system restores and still having same problems.

I need help.... I have a virus/malware/idk and idgaf, but it needs to be removed, i cant open windows defender, or the start menu.... I cant do anything with powershell or command prompt, because everything i find online doesnt have EXACT cmd line strings that i can copy and paste, they just say...

COMPUTER SPECS. hp laptop, model g72-227wm Windows 7 Home Prem. OA Intel Pentium dual core T4500 (2.30 GHz) 3 GB memory, 320(?) GB HDD Intel GMA 4500M IMPORTANCE AND COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE This laptop is maybe 10+ years old. I'm a musician and use it exclusively for recording stripped-down...

can I use restore point to downgrade after I enroll in the windows insider program if I want to go to the commercial version

Hi All, I have decided to try and use Windows 10 backup for my main backup to an external hard drive, but when I try to use it, I am getting an error message and so far I have not been able to turn it on. Can you help please:

I am trying to find some info about this error: Session "Microsoft.Windows.DirectToUpdate" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000035. Google & bing show nothing related to this. I have processed all the usual suspects: SFC, WU reset, DSIM restore, Manual installs from WU catalog, In...

Hello, Wanted to upgrade to Windows 10 version 21H 1. The upgrade was downloaded, installed, but when I rebooted the system, everything was uninstalled and came back to the previous version ! How to solve this ? Thanks in advance for your reply. Best regards.

For a few weeks I’ve had a couple of issues, I don’t know if related, with Updates. It may have to do with the October 2020 update v.20H2. [only because I have seen it] When I go to Start/Power, I get two options: Update and restart, Update and shutdown. When I do either, it starts the update...

Wanted to upgrade my old HP laptop from using Vista Home Premium to Win 7. Installed a clean copy of Win 7 Pro N. Installation not good and product key given not valid. Using on-line guide to restore Vista from "Windows.Old" was able to return setup to Vista ' almost. On start received the...

My Windows 10 laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad X220) is failing to wake from sleep. It goes to sleep normally but after half a minute the sleep light goes off (it should stay on), and when I press the button (which should wake it) it reboots, then works normally. The problem occurs on both battery and...

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...

(Windows 10 pro)I started getting the BSOD inaccessible boot drive, so I googled it and most of the answers talked about an update a few years ago that caused it, but nothing recent. I tried a bunch of recovery options and using system restore to go back before the latest feature update worked...

My computer is running Windows 10H2. It was upgraded from Windows 7, I have no install media. The "run as admin" doesn't work so I may need to do a "Recovery", "reset". If I reset I need to reinstall a lot of programs, "Apps and Features" says 173! How do I get a full list of these so I can...

This morning I came to work and found 3 PC with the same behavior. Starting PC, sometimes it opens log in windows, but if u too late it just stucked and won't let u do anything just spinning. If u fast, and put password as soon as log in window shows up it let u log in, but then it stucked in...

My Windows 10 PC was working just fine all along. But now, it gives me this screen with no option to proceed. No buttons, nothing. I tried to do a System Restore but now, the DVD drive (which used to appear in the boot menu before) is no longer appears in the boot menu. Any ideas how I can...

Hello! Windows Explorer crashes on my desktop every time I wake the PC from sleep. It starts up again after 2-3 seconds, but some of my taskbar icons disappear (like FX Sound Enhancer, AMD Adrenaline etc.). I am not sure if this started happening after an update or not, but as far as I can...