How to Turn Off System Restore in Windows 7, 8 and 10 (Complete)

Do you know what a system restore is? System Restore is a Windows default feature or tool that allows users to restore the Windows system to a previous state. What this means is, when you make changes to your windows system, and you find a problem or even an error, then you can restore your windows to a condition like yesterday or to a previous date (before you made changes).

For some people, system restore is certainly very important. However, the existence of this system restore will take up quite a lot of your hard disk space. It can be gigabytes in size. And for those whose hard disk is already full, of course this system restore will be a little annoying because it takes up a lot of hard disk space. Even system restore on my laptop once searched for 20GB, and of course it’s not a small size. If it is used to store photos, it may be used to store thousands of photos.

How to turn off System Restore

For those of you who don’t want the system restore feature to be active, you can turn it off easily. How to turn off system restore is not difficult, you can see the steps below:

1. First of all you have to enter the menu Control Panel. One way to enter the Control Panel menu is to use Run. Press the button Windows + R then type ‘control panel‘ as in the image below.

2. Next select System and Security.

3. Select System.

4. Next select System protection.

5. To turn off system restore, select Local Disk (C:) (System) then click Configure.

6. Select Disable system protection, then click OK. Finished.

That’s a tutorial on how to turn off system restore on versions of windows 7 and above, whether it’s windows 8 or 10. For windows XP the method is a little different, maybe I’ll make a tutorial at a later time. Thank you and hope it is useful!

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