Recovering Using System Restore

If you make a change to your system—such as adding new hardware, updating a device driver, installing a program, or modifying some settings—and then find that the system won’t start or acts weirdly, it’s a good bet that the change is the culprit. In that case, you can tell Windows 8 to revert to an earlier configuration that worked. (That is, a configuration that doesn’t include your most recent change.) The theory is that by using the previous working configuration, you can make your problem go away because the system is bypassing the change that caused the problem.

You revert Windows 8 to an earlier configuration by using System Restore. We showed you how to use System Restore to set restore points in Chapter ...

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