If your computer is slow or acting up, you can reset it to the default factory settings, and here's how on Windows 11 (and ...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 creates System Restore points, that is, snapshots of your PC’s system files, settings and registry. But those points expire and are automatically deleted after 60 days, ...

Microsoft has changed how Windows 11 manages System Restore points after its June 2025 security update. The update, KB5060842, says that starting with Windows 11 version 24H2, System Restore points ...

I’m not answering a reader’s question here. I just felt that these basic instructions needed to be somewhere easy to find. Windows’ built-in system backup program, System Restore, allows you to revert ...

System Restore points are also called Volume Shadow Copies. Internally, Windows manages them using the vssadmin program that can be used from Command Prompt or PowerShell. This program can list ...

The operating system's built-in safety net can be a quick and easy way to recover from a PC problem, but it too can fail. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff ...