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Nothing beats maintaining a PC or reinstalling everything. From here, go to the System image recovery setting, plug in your external drive, and select the image (and the earlier state) to go back to. Under Advanced, you’ll have the option to restore an image by selecting Troubleshoot. Jump to Repair your PC right from the installer’s welcome screen. Or plug in your Windows USB thumb drive or insert the DVD and enter the setup. Now restart your PC and repeatedly hit SHIFT+F8 right before the Windows logo is seen on the screen. So before I restore things, I make sure that all recent file changes are backed up either to an external drive or a cloud drive, like OneDrive or Dropbox. When and how to restoreĮxperiencing slowdown? Bugs? Bluescreens? Time to go pull out your system snapshot.įirst things first: The snapshot means your files will be “frozen in time.” If you decide to restore your entire PC using the image, you’ll lose all the changes you’ve made to your documents since creating the image. Once it’s done, put the disk in a safe place for rainy days, when your PC is starting to slow down. Follow the wizard and store your image on the external hard disk.ĭepending on the size of your partition, this will take a while. This will work on Windows 7, 8, and 10, so don’t let the name fool you. Next, click on System and Security then Backup and Restore (Windows 7). To use that, click on the Start menu and type in Control panel: To back up your entire system, you could go 3 rd party and pay a premium to get extra functionality, but the built-in Windows image tool gets the job done. In my case, I’m keeping it, but you could just as well delete these big hogs to save some space. In this case, we’re looking at 255 GB – most of it actually games ( GTA V, Witcher 3, and Dark Souls 3) and videos. Under Properties you’ll see how big it is: To check the size of your system disk, go to Computer and right-click on your main drive.

Make sure you’ve got an external drive that’s got the space to accommodate your files. As I said above, you want the snapshot to be as pristine as possible. Run a cleanup tool uninstall applications defrag the drive (if you’ve got a traditional HDD) and update all drivers and applications. How to create a PC snapshotįirst, make sure your system is as clean and as well-configured as it can be. It’s the situation you want to go back if things get sticky. This is when the PC runs its fastest and smoothest – no additional crapware, no toolbars, no junk. I usually create a snapshot directly after I’ve installed operating systems and applications on a computer and put all the settings the way I want them.