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how to do windows 8 and 8.1 system restore

Posted on  8/28/2014

If you recently installed any program that causing some kind of problem with your windows , then its best idea to restore you windows state to few days ago’s state . In this tutorial I will show you the steps you need to follow in order to successfully restore your windows machine state . so let’s get started with How to do windows 8 system restore .

NOTE : Please Note I did not issue any guarantee that it will surely work for you .

Steps

1. Click on Change PC Settings

If windows is not starting up anymore use installation media and choose repair and skip to step 5

change pc settings
change pc settings

2. Choose Update and Recovery

Update and Recovery
Update and Recovery

3. Choose Recovery and then Advance Startup

advance startup windows 8
advance startup windows 8

4. From Advance Startup Menu Choose Troubleshoot

Troubleshoot menu windows 8 advance startup
Troubleshoot menu windows 8 advance startup

5. From troubleshoot menu Choose System Restore

System Restore Menu
System Restore Menu

Windows will be restarted in system restore mode .

System Restore mode restart
System Restore mode restart

6. Enter Your Windows Password to Continue

Password
Password

7. Choose Restore Point ( date ) from System Restore window

Perform this step carefully choose the correct restore point , otherwise you will be ended up with something else than you expected . while choose see the timestamp to choose correct restore point .
then click next

System Restore Window
System Restore Window

8. Choose Yes to continue

choose Yes to continue when a pop-up window appear it will inform you that this action cannot be undone or you can not stop operation in middle .

System Restore Warning
System Restore Warning

9. Wait until it finish restoring

started restoring
started restoring

It will take about 20-25 depend on your system so don’t panic

Screen Shot 2014-08-28 at 1.48.58 pm (2)
Screen Shot 2014-08-28 at 1.48.58 pm (2)

You Computer will reboot and finish restoring . you don’t have to do anything else . just wait until it finish doing .

ScreenCast

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