Create a System Restore Point
Article by George Norman
On 04 Sep 2009
The purpose of System Restore, as the name so adequately suggests, is to restore your Windows operating system to a previous point in time. What this means is that you can undo harmful or just annoying changes to your system by restoring the operating system's settings and performance. Here is something that happened to me once: some friends came over and I foolishly let their child play with my computer. When they left, I discovered that the child did something to my computer: the internet connection just wouldn’t work. The upside is that I had previously created a System Restore Point, so I simply restored my computer – it all worked smoothly afterwards.

Here is what you have to do to create a System Restore Point in Windows XP:

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Step 1. Click Start. You can either click the Start icon from the bottom left hand corner of the screen, or you can press the Start button on your keyboard. It is usually located in the bottom left hand corner of the keyboard. It bears the Microsoft logo, so you should not have a problem identifying it.

Step 2. In the menu that pops up, click Help and Support.

Step 3. The Help and Support Center window should have popped up. Locate and click Undo changes to your computer with System Restore.

Step 4. The Welcome to System Restore window should have popped up. Click on Create a restore point -> click Next -> provide a brief description of the restore point -> click Create.

Step 5. Click Close and you’re done. You will now be able to use this point to restore your machine.

Tips and warnings
Sometimes even if you do perform a System Restore, the problem you had may not be fixed.
The Windows operating system automatically creates System Restore points at predetermined intervals of time.
It would be a wise idea to create a System Restore point before you start making changes to your operating system.



Tags: Microsoft, Windows, XP, System Restore
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