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Turn System Restore ON (or off)

Turn System Restore ON (or off)

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Turn System Restore ON (or off) - How to turn system restore on or off.

There have been reports of users discovering System Restore has been disabled on some Windows 10 installations, and for no obvious reason. Here we will see how to access the System Restore point applet and configure back to default. Of course you can reverse the process to disable it should you have a need to do so.

To access the restore point control panel firstly type "Restore point" in the Windows 10 search box and "Create a Restore point" will appear at the top of the available search...

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There's a shed load of information about system restore should you take the time to look. This explanation is far more eloquent than I can put it and it came from Wikipedia

System Restore is a feature in Microsoft Windows that allows the user to revert their computer's state (including system files, installed applications, Windows Registry, and system settings) to that of a previous point in time, which can be used to recover from system malfunctions or other problems. First included in Windows ME, it has been included in all following desktop versions of Windows released since, excluding the Windows Server.[1] In Windows 10, System Restore is turned off by default and must be enabled by users in order to function.[2]

In prior Windows versions it was based on a file filter that watched changes for a certain set of file extensions, and then copied files before they were overwritten.[3][4] An updated version of System Restore introduced by Windows Vista uses the Shadow Copy service as a backend (allowing block-level changes in files located in any directory on the volume to be monitored and backed up regardless of their location) and allows System Restore to be used from the Windows Recovery Environment in case the Windows installation no longer boots at all.[5]