When everything's going particularly well with your computing day, you don't usually think about System Restore. But you should. While smiling blissfully, capture that happy moment in time by creating your own restore point. Then when things aren't going particularly well, return to happier times by using that restore point. The more good restore points you've created, the easier it will be to return to good times.
To maximize System Restore's potential, create your own restore points with your own labels. Here's how:
Call up System Restore by going to the Start menu's All Programs menu. From there, pop open the Accessories menu and then the System Tools menu, where you find System Restore. The Welcome to System Restore window appears.
Choose Create a Restore Point and then click Next.
When Windows asks you to describe your new restore point, type in something that helps you remember why you made the restore point. For instance, type in Nothing has crashed for a week -- if only my computer could always run this smoothly! You needn't add the date in your description because Windows automatically gives it a date stamp.
Click the Create button, and you're done.
I usually create restore points right before I install potentially
problematic software, like large programming environments
or utilities that mess with the operating system.
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