July 2013
Beginner
336 pages
7h 40m
English
In This Chapter
• Restoring a lost or damaged file that you prudently backed up
• Taking advantage of Windows 8’s Recovery Environment
• Starting up your PC in Safe mode
• Reverting your PC to an earlier—and working—state using System Restore
• Solving problems by refreshing your Windows 8 system files
• Getting your PC back on its feet by restoring a system image
Ideally, solving a problem requires a specific tweak to the system: a setting change, a driver upgrade, a program uninstall. But sometimes you need to take more of a “big picture” approach to revert your system to some previous state in the hope that you’ll leap past the problem and get your system working again. Fortunately, Windows comes with a boatload ...