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    System Restore Space: reclaim, limit, and manage restore points safely

    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...
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    Create and Use System Restore Points in Windows 10/11

    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...
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    How to Delete Individual Windows System Restore Points Safely and Effectively

    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...
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    Most of my data disappeared after restarting. Windows 10 corruption or ransomware?

    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...
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    Windows 10 Creating System Restore Point and Restoring with "vssadmin" possible?

    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...
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    unknown ssd/harddrive space

    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...
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    • Forum: Windows Software
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