How To Perform System Restore in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 [Tutorial]
4How To Perform System Restore in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
So, something’s gone wrong. That’s fine. No need to sound the alarms, toss your computer in the trash, and pull out your credit card for a new desktop or laptop purchase. There might be a way to fix up your ailing PC without you having to start from scratch with a fresh Windows 8.1 installation. That’s assuming, of course, that you haven’t turned off Windows’ powerful System Restore functionality.
System Restore isn’t perfect, nor is it a time machine. It’s not going to return your system to a picture-perfect state as of a particular date. Rather, System Restore’s “restore points” will capture your system files and system settings on a weekly basis (automatically!) or whenever you perform a “significant system event,” as Microsoft describes — whenever you install a new program or device driver, or whenever a Windows update goes through, to name a few examples. It’s not the thing to use when you need to recover a deleted personal file; System Restore doesn’t “save” those, for lack of a better way to phrase it.
So how, then, do you go about taking your system back in time to when these restore points were created?
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 8 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba,Lenovo, and Samsung).