How to Use System Restore in Windows 8

In this video we will demonstrate how to use the System Restore feature in Windows 8. This is very useful if Windows stops working properly after installing new hardware or software or if you have a computer virus. We can begin from either the Metro side or the Desktop side. Press the Windows and W keys. Enter system restore in the box and click on Create a restore point. The System Properties window will open. Another way we can do this is with hot keys. Press the Windows and Pause keys to open the System window of Control Panel. Click on System protection to open the System Properties window. Now let's investigate System Restore further. This feature will restore the operating system to a previous point in time without affecting any of your data. The first thing to check is to see that the protection is turned on. As you can see in our case it is active. If we want to use this feature, we merely click on the System Restore button to begin the process. Click Next. This window lists the available restore points. We select the one we want and click Next. When we're ready to restore, we would click the Finish button. We won't do that right now so we'll click the Cancel button. We can change System Restore settings if we like. To do that, click on the Configure button. Here we can disable System Restore. We can set the amount of disk space used by moving this slider. We can remove all the currently stored points by clicking the Delete button. This is useful to clear up disk space or to remove all the remnants of a virus that has infected the computer. We'll close this window by clicking Cancel. Finally we can create a new restore point right now. Let's say that we deleted all the restore points and we want to create a new one now that the system is working properly. We merely click on the Create button. For example, we'll type test restore point in the box and click Create. Click the Close button. To see what happened, click on the System Restore button. Click Next. The most recent restore point is shown. We can also see more restore points by checking this box. Click Cancel and close the other windows. You now know how to work with System Restore in Windows 8. I hope that you found this tip helpful. This is just one of many videos about Windows 8 that we'll be producing. If you'd like to get a quick start, we have a free gift for you. Just click on the link below this video and you'll gain instant access to this quick reference card on handy Windows 8 shortcuts. Until next time, I'm *** Buchanan with Byte Savvy Computing Services.