Purge Your System Restore

You should delete your system restore in Windows. NOW! :-D

Really you should, I have the how, here is the why:
You can only trust your most recent restore. Which is done by date.
Path: Control Panel\System and Security\System "System Protection" on the left pane 3rd down.

When you add a new device to your computer, you should purge all system restores and make a new one before and after you finish loading and testing your device.

Whenever you make changes to your computer like adding hardware or loading software, it's recommended to do a backup and create a fresh restore once completed and tested. (You need to be able to recover a bad Hardware Install)

sidenote: We usually make a restore before the install to make sure we have the latest restore to choose from. Then once the new device/software/program is loaded and tested, we'll make another one. Don't wanna go back to before the device/software is loaded, if it's working fine...right ;-)

By running a backup, and creating a fresh system restore keeps your system safe and recoverable.

However, if you haven't ever done a clean on your system restore, and this will be your first time, and are not totally great with computers, we suggest bringing over a computer friend, but if I'm it, good luck ;-)

Also, if you are familiar with cleaning out your system restore use this as a reminder.

Systems have problems along the way that get fixed, so if you don't keep up on your system restore and backup you end up with a corrupted machine and no backup.

With the path above here is the Visual, now Choose Configure...

Delete System Restore

 Enable System Restore

 

Create System Restore

Recovering

 

Successful

 

Backon

 

 

Make sure that you see on! If not you will be without a system restore. Remember, you can do this, and if not, you gotta backup...right?

 

Another Good note to mention is that system restore copies everything so if you had a virus at one time, which are removable, but got caught in a system restore, you'll be cleaning that virus up again.

 

So another reason to do system restore cleanings.

 

sidenote: How Often, every two, three months TOPS!

 

We use system restore for only two things. The first one is real easy, bad driver.

 

As for the second one, would be a bad software program.

 

Now on both scenarios keep in mind that if you load software from windows or software from the vendor to load your driver/device with, and it doesn't work for some reason and you want to take it off and return it even, you'll want to use system restore, but how is important.

 

In both scenarios, Drivers Software or Program Software/App, it's best to try to uninstall the program first "THEN" restore your system back to before you installed the program.

 

Just because you do a system restore, doesn't mean that all those files came out of there, plus if you try to reverse the restore, whoaaa, then you're looking at corruption.

 

Removing the software before you restore your system is not only good for the recovered system state, but if you try to install this program again it may not load properly due to left over files.

 

As for Backing Up your computer, Microsoft's backup in Windows 7 works fine, good, perfect actually and it's Free :-P, and preloaded. It's the best backup program they have ever done right, so, maybe they gotta chance...

 

Just go to Control Panel\System and Security\Backup and Restore "Backup" choose backup in the left pane...setup backup, you should get a Yes or No windows permission if you have your security setup properly in Windows...Control Panel\User Accounts and Family Safety\User Accounts "Change User Account Control settings" slide the bar all the way up "Always Notify" reboot/restart same thing.

 

 

 

Now back to backup, Just go to Control Panel\System and Security\Backup and Restore "Backup" choose backup in the left pane...setup backup, you should get a Yes or No windows permission say yes :-) you'll need an external drive, or you could use a DVD Burner.

 

 

 

Typically you need a hard drive if you are going to backup your primary drive. The "Let Me Choose" option that you will see is for advanced users, but if you choose it, you'll want to open up users, find your user(s) expand files 'each one' and look for folders AppData\Local\LocalLow\Roaming. All you need is AppData\Local, you can remove the rest, but if you want, choose only Roaming, otherwise you'll receive file errors.

 

sidenote: Or you could just let Windows Choose. There are other files that get loaded on your computer, like QuickBooks creates a folder in Program Files that you need to back up and you have to manually choose them. This backup backs up all that you need minus program and programs data. You don't need all data from all folders, but some load data into the program Files folder which is backerupper bewarer ;-)

 

Disable your Threatmanagement while doing the system restore, when your system comes up it should be back on, but in a perfect world, always check ;-P

 

To reiterate on the System Restore On Feature, make sure it's...Back On!