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In this video I want to talk about System Restore. Now this has been in the Windows Operating System for a while and let's talk about how to get out there to it. There are a couple of ways. You can just type Restore right here in the Search Box and that will get you there or you can go to Control Panel and you can go to System and when you get here you can type system, you can click on System Protection OK? Now, in the spirit of all things Windows, I'll show you one more way. If I right-click on the Computer Icon I can go to Properties and then click on System Protection. It takes me to the same place. Notice that where I end up is on the System Protection tab of the System Properties dialog box. Now this is the same one where you get your Computer Name and your workstation, your workgroup and all that stuff, your Domain. But notice now, what we can do with this is just like in previous versions, I can Configure Restore Points, and then I can Create Restore Points and what this thing's doing is taking a snapshot of most of the settings on my machine so I can restore to that point if I start having problems. Now, right down here I can configure this. Notice I can tell it to keep copies of system settings and previous versions of files that I'd like to be able to restore, OK? And so I can get system settings and previous versions of files, or only previous versions of files, or I can Turn off system protection. I'm going to leave it on. Notice I can tell it how much is the maximum disk space I want to use for System Protection and as that fills up older restore points will be deleted. So you just have to be careful. It's set on 15 percent, which is 42 Gigs for me, OK? Notice I'm at 41.28 right now. And then I can click this and Delete all restore points, OK, to free up the disk space, OK? And I'll just Cancel that. Now if I want to create a Restore Point all I have to do is type Create and it will create them for me, and there are a lot of times that things will be created, sometimes they're just created automatically; other times before you install certain software, it'll create a restore point, but you need to get in the habit, before you do anything major to your computer, a major installation of software, or anything especially if you suspect that it could be a problem then I would go out and create a Restore Point OK? So, I can just type Mark Added New Custom Program. That's going to be the name of my Restore Point and then I can click Create and it will just go out there and create that Restore Point OK? Now, I'm not going to create one here. What I want to talk about, the cool part of the new Restore, is right here when we look at Undo system changes by reverting to a previous restore point, now this is where Microsoft really hit it out of the park. Notice I can get to this just by going to the Start Menu and going to Search and typing Restore, it will bring me right here, OK; or actually, it'll bring me to Backup and Restore and I can get in here. Now, if I want to Restore I just click Next. Now this is showing me all of the restore points that are out there, OK? Now notice, right here there was an automatic restore point done, OK; notice Windows Update. There was a critical Update done that took place at 12:35 and that one kicked off a Restore. A lot of your Windows Updates - you'll notice there was another one here - will kick off a Restore Point so that if the Windows Update causes problems on your machine then you can restore to the point before that was done, OK? Now, notice up here, How do I choose a restore point? Look at what files are changed, OK; files, programs, registry settings, OK; it can make changes to scripts, batch, other executables; alright, I'll let you read through all of this kind of stuff, okay and you can learn a little bit more about this, OK? Now, here's the big thing. Let's say that I want to, I removed the HP Quick Launch buttons, alright. I want to scan and say, wait a minute, what programs are going to be affected by this restore? So if I go back to this point what's been done since then? So I click this and notice it's going to scan and come back - it's going through the Registry and who knows where else and it's looking to see what's going to be affected. If I go back to that restore point what's going to be different for me? Alright? So we will let that run. Normally it takes it just a couple of minutes, but since it's a live demo it'll probably take two or three days. I always love that - live demos. There we go, OK? So any programs that were added since the last restore point will be deleted and any that were removed will be restored. In other words, any changes I've made since this restore point are going to be basically gone, OK? Now, this is what's going to happen. I can look at this and tell - now this is huge because always before with Restore Points I couldn't tell what I was going to have, OK, and so I can just keep running these and looking to see, OK, what's the deal here? What am I going to lose or what am I going to gain for this? OK, and so I can just grab a restore point and hit Next and then it's going to tell me that I'm going to confirm the computer's going to be restored to the state it was in before the event in the description field below, OK? And I can click Finish and it will carry out the Restore, OK? This is a cool way to protect yourself. Do a restore before you do - or create a restore point before you do anything major and then you can go back and perform a System Restore to get it back to where you were before OK? This is kind of like logging onto the last known good configuration on steroids. So, that's System Restore - the ability to scan a Restore Point and see what's going to be affected. It's absolutely huge OK? So just know that that's different in Windows 7 and make sure that you take advantage of this piece of functionality that's built into Windows 7.