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Fixing Your Computer Absolute Beginner’s Guide
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Fixing Your Computer Absolute Beginner’s Guide

by Paul McFedries
July 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
7h 40m
English
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6. Recovering from Problems

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 ...

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