We can’t think of a more important Windows feature, that is less understood and more underused than System Restore. Since Windows ME, Microsoft has given every Windows user a way to back out of catastrophe. In your hands, fellow Windows user, Microsoft has entrusted a virtual time machine. With System Restore you can back out of the biggest disasters, recover from software installations gone awry, back away from rogues, spyware, viruses, Trojans and more. Yet so few people think of it when bad things happen.<\/p>\n
System Restore does have its downsides. Sometimes it’s a bit arcane. Sometimes it’s difficult to manage – for instance, removing old restore points requires a few more steps than it should. And with System Restore, it’s all or nothing. Up until now you could explore what was in your system restore points. Up until now – that is.<\/p>\n
Today we’re going to tell you about a little freeware program that not only allows you to easily delete old restore points in just three steps (Open the program, click a restore point, then click delete) but also allows you to explore your restore points and even extract individual files from them.<\/p>\n
Our freeware pick today is called System Restore Explorer. It’s not really a program for Windows newbies – it’s for you intermediate and advanced users. But if you’re a beginner – don’t be afraid to download it and take a look. The worst thing that could happen is you could delete a restore point you might not have wanted to delete. So don’t delete any restore points unless you’re sure you won’t need them anymore. We always recommend keeping at least three system restore points – the oldest, the newest, and one in between.<\/p>\n
Anyway, getting back to System Restore Explorer, the developer has something he’d like to tell you:<\/p>\n
“System Restore Explorer is a tool which allows you to browse system restore points on your computer and select individual ones for deletion should you wish to free up some disk space. It also allows you to mount the contents of a restore point into a folder so that you can browse and copy individual files, without the need to perform a full system restore.<\/p>\n
When you select a restore point and mount it the tool will create a shortcut to that particular restore point which will allow you to browse the contents and copy files. Once you have finished with a particular restore point you can either use the tool to unmount it or simply delete the shortcut (deleting the shortcut will not delete the restore point)…”<\/p>\n
If you’ve been looking for a way to explore your restore points more easily, or to view and copy files from restore points, or just for an easier way of deleting restore points you don’t need (restore points are very large files – having more than three just takes up a lot of drive space), then you’ll want to download, install, and try System Restore Explorer. It’s 100% free. It works exactly as the author describes.<\/p>\n
Keep in mind this is a tool made for intermediate and advanced Windows users. If you’re a beginner, don’t worry, you really can’t do any harm with this program other than deleting a restore point by mistake. Remember: Every advanced and intermediate Windows user was a beginner too.<\/p>\n
Apparently the author’s site has been taken down or there are problems with it. You can download System Restore Explorer from here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n On the chance that the author’s site’s problems are temporary, we are leaving this information on this post — just in case.<\/p>\n Read more about System Restore Explorer\u00a0http:\/\/nicbedford.co.uk\/software\/systemrestoreexplorer\/<\/a> . The download link is not obvious on the page, so here’s the direct link to the download for you: \u00a0http:\/\/nicbedford.co.uk\/files\/InstallSystemRestoreExplorer.msi<\/a><\/p>\n The lowdown:<\/p>\n System Restore Explorer We can’t think of a more important Windows feature, that is less understood and more underused than System Restore. Since Windows ME, Microsoft has given every Windows user a way to back out of catastrophe. In your hands, fellow Windows user, Microsoft has entrusted a virtual time machine. With System Restore you can back out of the biggest\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5473,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/5473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>A System Restore manager and more
\nWindows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
\n32bit and 64bit
\n838 KB – Windows Installer
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