Practical Windows XP system restore

The easiest way to maintain a computer is to use a clone software to make a backup of the system. When it comes to backup, we will think of backup software such as Ghost. In fact, Windows introduced this technology in the Windows Me era, called system restore. You can undo our operations that are harmful to your computer and return to a normal state without losing our most recent work. When it comes to Windows XP, the system restore function has been further strengthened. If you accidentally delete files or the computer has various failures, system restore will help you a lot.

Creating a System Restore Point

Creating a System Restore Point is to create a restore location. Once there is a problem with the system, you can restore the system to the state it was in when the restore point was created.

Open the "Start" menu, select "Programs → Accessories → System Tools → System Restore" command, open the System Restore Wizard, select "Create a restore point" (Figure 1), and then click "Next" Button, fill in the restore point name in the restore point description, click the "Create" button to complete the creation of the restore point.

Restore System

After a problem with the computer or accidentally deleted the file, the system restore will come in handy. Open the "Start" menu, select the "Programs → Accessories → System Tools → System Restore" command, select "Restore my computer to an earlier time", click the "Next" button to select the restore point, in the calendar on the left After selecting the time of the restore point creation, all the restore points created in this day will appear on the right side, select the restore point you want to restore (as shown in Figure 2), click "Next" to restore the system, then the system will restart And complete the restoration of the system.

System Restore

With the growth in use of time, you will find the System Restore disk space consumed is really amazing. How to make system restore better serve us without taking up too much hard disk space? If you use System Restore just to restore the system, you only need to set the system partition (that is, the partition installed by Windows XP) to restore the system. Other partitions can disable the restore function to save disk space.

in "My Computer" right click, select "Properties → Restore System", set the system restore the window to open (FIG. 3), in front of the "closed system with all drives Restore" key tick So Windows XP will delete the backup system restore point and free up the hard disk space. Then, select "Disable System Restore on all drives to turn off System Restore" to start System Restore, then select a non-system partition, click "Settings", and select "Turn off System Restore on this drive" so that the system restore function of the partition It is banned. In addition, we can also limit the disk space used by the partition, select the partition where you want to set the space, click the "Settings" pop-up settings window, and then drag the block to adjust the space size.