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    How To Enable System Restore in Windows 7

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    System protection regularly creates restore points of system files and the registry before significant system events. This allows users to undo system changes through System Restore without affecting personal files. The document provides instructions for checking if System Protection is enabled, configuring restore settings, and viewing previously created restore points. System Restore is recommended if a newly installed program or driver caused unexpected issues that uninstalling did not fix.

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    How To Enable System Restore in Windows 7

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    System protection regularly creates restore points of system files and the registry before significant system events. This allows users to undo system changes through System Restore without affecting personal files. The document provides instructions for checking if System Protection is enabled, configuring restore settings, and viewing previously created restore points. System Restore is recommended if a newly installed program or driver caused unexpected issues that uninstalling did not fix.

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    How To Enable System Restore in Windows 7

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    How to Enable System Restore in Windows 7

    A way to undo system changes without affecting personal files


    Before you install more programs and drivers on your newly installed
    Windows 7 PC, make sure you have System Protection enabled. System
    protection is a feature that regularly creates and saves information about your
    computer’s system files and registry.
    System protection also saves previous versions of files that you’ve modified. It
    saves these files in restore points, which are created just before significant
    system events, such as the installation of a program or device driver. By
    default System protection is automatically on for the drive that Windows is
    installed on. System protection can only be turned on for drives that are
    formatted using the NTFS file system.
    To check if you have the protection turned on go to the Control Panel, click
    System then choose System Protection.

    The System Properties dialog will appear. Click the System Protection tab.
    Look for the drive marked with System – this is the drive where Windows 7 is
    installed. The protection for this drive is on by default – if not, click it to turn it
    on. You may turn on the system protection of other non-system disks if you
    like. If you do this, you can restore previous versions of files inside those
    drives.

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    Click the Configure button to see the restore settings and maximum space
    used by the restore points. If you have a large amount of space on your
    computer, it’s a good idea to choose the Restore system settings and previous
    versions of files option and to set the Max Usage percentage so that it’s
    greater than 5 GB in size.

    2
    If you want to see the restore points created by your system, click the System
    Restore button.

    The list of restore points will appear. You may go to this list in the future if
    you need to restore from one of the available restore points.

    3
    System Restore is a way to undo system changes to your computer without
    affecting your personal files, such as email, documents, or photos. System
    Restore is the best choice if you installed a program or driver that caused an
    unexpected change to your computer and uninstalling the program or driver
    didn’t fix the problem.
    If you’ve been using system restore for some time and you don’t see all the
    restore points you created, check out my articles on missing restore points in
    Windows. If you have any questions about system restore, post them in the
    comments. Enjoy!

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