The operating system's built-in safety net can be a quick and easy way to recover from a PC problem, but it too can fail. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff ...

System Restore is a valuable safety feature, but it doesn't need to take over your hard drive. By checking how much space it's using, deleting old restore points, and setting a reasonable storage ...

While Backup and Restore (Windows 7) creates viable and fantastically compatible hard drive images, various flaws and limitations with the Windows Rescue/Recovery disks render it basically unusable ...

So I'm migrating from XP to 7x64 and spent the last week installing all my apps and games. Yesterday something went wrong and Windows wouldn't boot up, so I rebooted and it went into the Safe Recovery ...