How to Activate Restore Point in Windows 8 and 10 (Complete)

System restore is a recovery tool or a tool for system recovery provided by the Windows operating system. This tool is very useful for those of you who want to restore your computer at some point. However, I emphasize, this system is not a backup system that can restore your personal data files but only to restore the arrangement of the registry and some other information settings.

Usually, this system is used when your computer is experiencing an error or error while installing an application, is attacked by a virus, or for other reasons. Some of you may be thinking of deciding to reinstall your operating system. However, you can actually use this tool to solve this problem. However, this only applies to computers that have enabled system restore. Because, on some computers, this system restore does not automatically activate itself, but you have to activate this system manually.

Therefore, you should immediately check whether your computer has activated this system restore or not. This is done to minimize unwanted computer conditions. Then, if the system restore on your computer is already active, you should not try to disable this system. However, if the system restore on your computer is not yet active, please activate this tool.

An enabled system restore will save the system drive settings on your computer every time you make changes to the system such as installing applications. Well, this setting file is stored periodically by the computer which is commonly called a restore point. So, if you want to tamper with your computer or want to install an application, it’s a good idea to enable system restore on your computer. This is done so that if something goes wrong that you do, you can return to the point where it was before your computer crashed.

In this article, we will discuss step by step how to activate a restore point in Windows 8 and 10. You can try the method below for your computer that is running the Windows 8 or 10 operating system. Because the appearance of the two versions of Windows is not much different.

How to Enable Restore Point in Windows 8/10

System restore is a very important tool for your computer. Because, if the system is active, any changes to the system that you make will be saved as a restore point that you can later restore. Just follow the steps below.

1. Open Control Panel on your computer by selecting the search icon then typing control panel and then selecting control panel.

2. After the control panel opens, select System and Security.

3. Next select System.

4. Then select System protection.

5. Well, you have entered the system protection settings. You will see if your drive is active or not. If the protection on your drive is still off then your system restore is not active. However, if the opposite is on, then it is already active. If it’s not active yet, please select drive that you want to activate (Local Disk C is one of the drives that you must activate) > then select Configure.

6. Choose the first option which is Turn on system protection > You can also set disk space usage (optional) > select OK.

7. If the protection on your drive has changed to On, then your system restore is active.

That’s a tutorial on how to activate a restore point in Windows 8 or 10. To avoid an error computer due to installing certain applications, you should not install applications from unknown and untrusted sources. Because, maybe some of these installers contain viruses that can attack your computer.

If your system restore is already active, you should not disable this system because you can ‘kill’ your computer indirectly. Hopefully this article useful for you. Thank you for visiting Nesabamedia and keep visiting to get the latest and interesting info of course.

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