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Using Microsoft System Restore - recovery

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CHAPTER 7: Maintaining Your Notebook To recover pre-installed device drivers, click Device driver recovery, then click the type of driver you want to recover. 3 Click Next. 4 If the software or driver is not shown on the list and you have a multiple-disc set of recovery discs, close Gateway Recovery Center and try another disc. Using Microsoft System Restore Microsoft System Restore periodically takes "snapshots" of your system settings and saves them as restore points. In most cases of hard-to-resolve software problems, you can return to one of these restore points to get your system running again. Windows automatically creates an additional restore point each day, and also each time you install software or device drivers. You can also create a restore point manually. For instructions, see "Manually creating a restore point" on page 88. Help For more information about using Microsoft System Restore, click Start, then click Help and Support. Type windows system restore in the Search Help box, then press ENTER. 86

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CHAPTER 7: Maintaining Your Notebook
86
To recover pre-installed device drivers, click
Device
driver recovery
, then click the type of driver you want
to recover.
3
Click
Next
.
4
If the software or driver is not shown on the list and you
have a multiple-disc set of recovery discs, close Gateway
Recovery Center and try another disc.
Using Microsoft System Restore
Microsoft System Restore periodically takes “snapshots” of
your system settings and saves them as
restore points
. In most
cases of hard-to-resolve software problems, you can return to
one of these restore points to get your system running again.
Windows automatically creates an additional restore point
each day, and also each time you install software or device
drivers. You can also create a restore point manually. For
instructions, see
“Manually creating a restore point” on
page 88
.
Help
For more information about using Microsoft System Restore, click
Start
,
then click
Help and Support
. Type
windows system restore
in the
Search
Help
box, then press
E
NTER
.