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Backing up files is good, but backing up can also mean going back as in back in history.
There is a feature here that allows you to set up a restore point.
So if something does go wrong, maybe you've installed something or something was installed
without you knowing and you want to go back to a point in time when your system was working
perfectly, it involves setting up a Restore Point and that's what we're going to do right
now by going to the top or bottom right-hand corner of your screen, clicking the Search
charm, and we'll type in system restore.
When we click Settings you'll notice over here in the left-hand side we can create a
Restore Point and all that means is we can set up our system so that if something does
go wrong, we can go back in time to a point when things were good.
So let's give it a click.
It takes us again to our System Properties here in our old desktop environment and you'll
notice System Protection is selected.
So there's a number of different things here.
First of all, for System Restore to work, you have to have a drive with protection turned
on.
You could see my Local Disk drive here, System C: has protection turned on.
If you see Off, you can click Configure and turn it to On.
Also, down below you can see the Disk Space Usage setting.
The maximum usage that you want to use for system protection so that's a slider that
can be adjusted.
Mine is set at 3%.
3% to 5% is a good option.
Now when you click OK, you'll notice a warning indicating that perhaps, Some of your older
restore points will be deleted, are you sure you want to continue?
When you click Yes, you're all set to go.
Now down below, you'll notice that, Create a restore point right now for the drives that
have a system protection turned on, can be done.
So clicking Create will create a Sytem Restore Point at this time.
So if everything is working perfectly, clicking Create will create that Restore Point, all
you have to do is put in the current date.
I'm going to type in October 17, 2012.
When I click Create, you can see it doesn't take that long, but the Restore Point will
be created under System Protection.
So what does that mean?
Once it's been set up, all I have to do now is restore the system when something goes
wrong and as you can see in the background here in our System Properties, when we close
up our Restore Point message, Sytem Restore is the button we click to restore to a previous
restore point.
So if you have many, you can click this button, select the date that you want to go back to,
and we'll do that by clicking Next, selecting the date, clicking Next, and you'll notice
some information about what you're about to do and that is to confirm the Restore Point,
the date, click Finish, and you're all restored.
I'm going to click Cancel, because everything is running fine right now.
I don't need to go back to a restore point.
We'll click Cancel at this point to close up that window, press our Windows key to get
back to our Start screen in Windows 8, and that's a handy little feature if something
does go wrong and you need to go back to a point in history when everything was working
fine, you can.
Just keep in mind that if, for example, you've created files in-between that restore point
and now they could be lost, but everything will be working properly and if you've been
backing up your files like we did in the previous movie, you won't have an issue.