A few years back, I was working as a freelancer for a company that was trying to develop a US market for its rather obscure hardware products and needed a native English speaker to tweak the text on ...

Lance Whitney is a technology journalist with an IT background. He's written for TechRepublic, PCMag, Macworld, and Time, among others, He also teaches classes in AI, cybersecurity, and social media.

Manually creating a restore point is a bit of a clumsy process. Check out these two techniques for turning restore point creation into a one-click operation. System Restore works by automatically ...

System Restore is a Microsoft Windows utility designed to protect and revert the operating system (OS) to a previous state. This state is known as a restore point. The utility is useful when there is ...

If you are an owner of Windows Vista Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise then you have access to a feature called Complete PC Backup and Restore. This feature allows you to create backup images of your ...

System Restore has been a staple Windows feature since Windows ME, returning in all following versions as a recovery tool for when things go particularly bad and can't be fixed. It allows a user to ...

Has Windows been acting flaky? A specific piece of software could be wreaking havoc on your system. Maybe you've installed a new application or driver. Perhaps Windows is crashing or blue screening ...

System Restore continually monitors system activity and regularly takes snapshots of system files, device drivers, installed programs and Windows registry keys. It saves those snapshots as restore ...