Windows 11 basics: how to use System Restore to go back in time

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A few years back, I was working as a freelancer for a company that was trying to develop a US market for its rather obscure hardware products and needed a native English speaker to tweak the text on its site. Everything was going swimmingly until my second week on the job, when I went to the site — and found that I was suddenly getting weird ads flashing across my screen and had lost the ability to access my security software. I needed to get rid of whatever had invaded my system — hopefully, without the need to reset my PC (and lose more time reinstalling all of my apps and files). Here’s what I used: System Restore. System Restore is a handy feature that takes a sort of snapshot of your PC’s software, registry, and driver... Continue reading…
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