Just a quick word on how to use the System Restore function on Windows XP if everything goes tits up and you’d like to revert your PC back to a time when everything worked!
System Restore doesn’t delete your personal or saved files just program installations and automatic upgrades.
Heres how to use it:
- Go to ‘Start – All Programs – Accessories – System Tools – System Restore’. (Sometimes its not here and in that case go to ‘C:\WINDOWS\system32\Restore\rstrui.exe’).
- When you get the “Welcome to System Restore” window up, tick “Restore my computer to an earlier time” and click Next.
- On the calendar, pick a time when you’re sure everything worked fine, maybe a day or 2 previously and click Next.
- You will then see a screen with a lot of red text explaining what is about to happen. Click Next to restore your pc.
- On restart, your pc will be restored to before your specific problem occurred and will hopefully be working again.
The trouble with this is that if the initial problem was caused by an automatic windows update which is common then it will probably happen again on the next update so if your pc is otherwise fine you may wish to turn off automatic updating altogether.
To do that go to ‘Start – My Computer (right-click) – Properties – Automatic Updates’ and tick ‘Turn off Automatic Updates’.
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