A Word Of Caution!!!

Hi Guys,

Today I want to give you a word of caution that will stop you pulling your hair out with frustration.

 Donald C Phinney IIdonphinney.blogspot.com

A lot of people these days do not have the knowledge about how to fix their computer if something goes wrong.

If something does go wrong they either have to see if they have a friend who can fix it for them or worse, they have to send it off to a shop to be fixed.

They can charge you a fortune to repair even a small problem.

You can possibly save yourself the cost and loss of losing your computer being away from your home by doing a simple task.

It is something that every computer has.

It is called System Restore and System Back Up. 

It is worth setting a restore point at least once a week and before you make any changes or add a new program to your computer. 

How Do You You Set Up A System Restore Point? 

 The first thing you need to do is type in system properties into the search bar .

You can access this by clicking on the start button in the bottom left hand corner of your computer. 

When you click on this a menu will appear with  a list of programs and a search box.

In this search box just enter system properties.

This will open a new screen.

Click on the system protection tab in the menu at the top of this new box.

You will then see a tab that says create.

 Click on this and a new box will open up saying create a system restore point.

 In the box type in a name for the retore point.

I usually just put in the time and date here so you can see when it was made in case you need to use this restore point.

When you have typed in a name the create button will become active.

Then just click on the create button and it will create a back up of all your files up to this point.

If you add a new program and it causes problems with your computer just follow the above step until you get to the create button.

On this screen you will see a system restore button.

Click on this button.

In the next window it will give you a list of restore points that have been created.

Click on the one just before the time that your computer caused a problem

Then click on restore.

You computer will be restored to this point. 

Any work you have done after creating a restore point will be lost but at least you have got your computer running again.

As stated previously it is worth creating a restore point at least once a week so that you will not lose to much information if you do have a problem.

I hope this will help you.

Have a profitable day.

Stephen Hart.