Hi this is Roger DeReu. My website is freecomputerconsultant.com. In this screencast, what I want to show you is actually restore a Windows XP restore point like the one we created earlier in the previous video. Interestingly enough, just two hours after I had created that last video showing you how to create a restore point, I was at a client’s and someone had inadvertently while trying to clean up their machine, deleted a whole bunch of primarily shortcuts and essentially took out the entire Start menu. Now the—well, this could be fun.
But I’d actually installed some software right before they did that and as I had mention in another screencast, sometimes when you install software, it will actually do a restore point either before or after or in this case, both times and you got to restore points that you can go back to. So in this case, I was able to just restore from that restore point after the installation of the software, we’re back up and running, it was great, it was just a few minutes time. So let us see how we can do that now.
Can go down to our Start button and you can see these are the recently used programs but go to our Programs, Accessories, System Tools and there we have System Restore. Now bring this up, this nice little Wizard here and you can see we’ve got three options on the right and we did talk about this System Restore settings in the previous videos, so we will go to those again.
But the default list to ‘Restore my computer to an earlier time’ but notice e also we could create a start point or an Undo my last restoration. And so if you do a system restore and it’s not the way you want it, you can either undo it you can go to a different restore point and see if that doesn’t get you back where you need to be.
But this one is going to be what we are going to want this time, Restore my computer to an earlier time. You click Next and here you can see what we have here. I have got the Restore Point Operations for today. You can see it bolded the dates in the calendar where were there were system check points set which Xp does edit automatically from time to time and those are bold. Go back here and you can see we just take, okay computer running great, that is what we want to restore and you click Next and you get this kind of a confirmation screen, that says okay, this is the one you have selected and you know the date and time and the comment. It does mention that this process is not cause to lose you any risk work or e-mails since it’s completely reversible and during this restoration, the system restores, shuts down Windows and then it will restart. And I can not record the screen as I do that but 2:43 nice little dialog box that shows you the restore point being restored. It doesn’t take more than about a minute or two depending on the speed of your machine. The system reboots, comes back up and once you got then is just kind of a welcoming screen like this saying, here is restore points where we restored and you can always undo it if that is not what you want. And you click OK and you are back into Windows.
So stop it right here but this is really about as much as there is to it and it can really bail you out, it happened just today, that two hours after I did that previous screencast showing you how you to do it. And I hope that you will take the opportunity to create a restore point right now on the workstation you are working on. It might save you a load of time and frustration in the future.
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