System Restore is a valuable safety feature, but it doesn't need to take over your hard drive. By checking how much space it's using, deleting old restore points, and setting a reasonable storage ...

System Restore is a long-standing feature on Windows 11. Its purpose is to create snapshots of the computer's current working state and save them as "restore points" when specific events are triggered ...

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, ...

recently i've come across explorer problems, but it was fixed (possibly) when i updated XP to SP3 and to IE8. but i couldn't find restore points older than 3 months old, since i think i may have had ...

Who here has been able to just boot into safe mode, choose a restore point and it will restore Just fine under Boootcamp ? MBP Air, Win 7 X64. EVERYTIME I do this in various shapes or forms, it does ...

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 ...

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 ...