Use WinXP "system restore"

Computer Shop News System Restore is a key information recovery tool similar to the Restore Wizard. In fact, as early as WinMe era, Windows introduced this technology, only limited to WinMe based on Win9X kernel, its system restore function is not mature enough. In the era of WinXP, system restoration has been further strengthened. If you accidentally installed the driver, accidentally deleted the system file or the computer has a variety of strange faults, you can use System Restore to "turn back the clock" and restore the operating system to a healthy state. First, create a system restore point Create a system restore point is to establish a restore location, after the system has problems, you can restore the system to the state when the restore point was created. Click the “Start”/“Programs”/“Accessories /“System Tools”/“System Restore” command to open the System Restore Wizard and select “Create a Restore Point” Click the “Next” button to fill in the restore point name in the restore point description (of course, you can also use the default date as the name), click the “Create” button to complete the creation of the restore point. Tip: Quickly start the system restore Enter C: Windowssystem32restore directory, right click on the rstrui file (this is the background program of the system restore), select “ send to → desktop shortcuts, then just double-click the shortcut Quick start system restore. You can achieve the same effect by entering “rstrui” at the command line prompt or in the “Run” box. Second, the restore point also system "Health" When the computer has abnormal errors or failures for various reasons, the system restore will come in handy. Click “Start”/“Programs”/“Accessories”/“System Tools”/“System Restore”Command, select “Restore my computer to an earlier time”, Then click the “Next” button to select the restore point. After selecting the date created by the restore point in the calendar on the left, 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 the figure. 2 in the "savior" restore point (this name is of course my own). Click “Next" to start the system restore, the system will restart during this process. If WinXP cannot be run in normal mode for system restore, then enter the operating system in safe mode to restore it in the same way as in normal mode. If the system has crashed and can't enter even the security mode, but can enter the security mode with command prompt, you can type ""C:windowssystem32restorerstrui” at the command line prompt and press Enter (the actual input is not With quotes), you can also open the system restore operation interface for system restore. Third, partial system restore By default, "system restore" will save the corresponding information and data for all drive changes, but this will inevitably consume a lot of disk space as the use of time increases. How to make system restore run better without taking up too much hard disk space? In fact, as long as the system restore function is only available for the partition where the operating system is located, it can save a lot of disk space. Go to the “System Restore” window and you will be able to set up the system restore partition. In the “Close System Restore on all drives” button, click “Apply”, so WinXP will delete the backup system restore point and release the hard disk space. Then, cancel the "Resume System Restore on All Drives" button to start the system restore, then select a non-system partition, click "Settings", select “ turn off the system restore on this drive & rdquo; The system restore feature of this partition is disabled. In addition, you can also limit the disk space used by the partition to restore, select the partition to set the use space, click "Settings" pop-up settings window, drag the slider to adjust the space size.