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 ...

After reading last week’s post on restoring the classic All Programs menu in Windows 7, reader Bill wrote to say he has “a lot of problems with the Windows 7 Control Panel,” and wants the old XP ...

Most prebuilt/OEM systems I've seen come with a system restore partition, or a utility that will let you make a set of restore disks. For any system I get rid of (personal, or business) I run Kill ...

Microsoft says Windows 7 recovery discs created using the Control Panel Backup and Restore app will fail to start after installing Windows updates released since January 11, 2022. However, while ...

Windows Vista introduced some new backup tools, but they failed in one important area: you couldn't specify exactly which folders should be backed up. Thankfully, the Backup and Restore Center in ...