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 ...

I have disabled and re-enabled it several times to no avail. It is also not creating restore points on it's own. There's 18Gb free on my drive - I also went into the Control Panel and restarted the ...

Not all Windows settings matter, but these ones really do.

Microsoft has changed how Windows 11 manages System Restore points after its June 2025 security update. The update, KB5060842, says that starting with Windows 11 version 24H2, System Restore points ...

This tutorial demonstrates how to perform a Point-in-Time restore on a Windows 11 PC. It’s a new feature in Windows 11 that introduces a modern approach to restoring your PC to the exact state it was ...

Now let’s see these in detail. net stop vss net stop swprv cd /d %windir%\system32 regsvr32 /s ole32.dll regsvr32 /s oleaut32.dll regsvr32 /s vss_ps.dll vssvc ...

A week ago I wrote about my investigations into System Restore on Windows XP and Windows Vista. I have since heard back from a program manager at Microsoft, who said of the Vista default disk ...