A week ago I wrote about my investigations into System Restore on Windows XP and Windows Vista. I have since heard back from a program manager at Microsoft, who said of the Vista default disk ...

System Restore is a valuable safety feature, but it doesn't need to take over your hard drive. By checking how much space it's using, deleting old restore points, and setting a reasonable storage ...

System restore points on a Windows Vista machine are getting up to 20GB on a 900GB disk. Is there a way to limit how many restore points are available at a time or am I left to deleting them manually?

I have an HP desktop with Windows Vista 32 bit and I want to use Visual Studio 2013 which only works on Windows 7. I have ordered a Windows 7 SP1 64 bit clean install disk and I plan to reformat the C ...

For many people the next logical action after installing Vista will be trying to restore some of their files from a backup taken on Windows XP. Agreed? Unfortunately this apparently simple task is not ...

First sign-in restore aims to cut rebuilds when users skip setup options Microsoft has quietly tweaked Windows Backup for Organizations to include restore at first sign-in.… The feature, which is ...