Maintain Computer System

Creating System Restore Point
Create a restore point

1. Right-click the Start button, then select Control Panel > System and Maintenance
> System.
2. In the left pane, select System protection.
3. Select the System Protection tab, and then select Create.
4. In the System Protection dialog box, type a description, and then select Create.
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Creating System Backup Image
1. Click Start , and then click Control Panel.
2. Under System and Security, click Back up your computer.
3. The Backup and Restore Center opens.Click Create a system image.
4. Choose the location to save your system image, and then click Next.
 On a hard disk
 One or more DVDs
 On a network location
5.Confirm the settings, and then click Start backup.
6.Windows prepares to create the system image.
7.If you are backing up to DVD, label and insert a blank DVD in the DVD recorder.
8.If you are backing up to DVD and a message displays requesting to format the
DVD, choose to format the DVD.
9.Windows saves the system image.
10.If using DVDs, when prompted, label and insert a blank DVD. Continue to follow
the on-screen instructions until the image is complete. This might take from several
minutes to several hours. Store the backup in a safe place.
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Using the Created Restore Point to Restore the System
1. Boot your Windows 7
2. Click Start
3. In the search bar, type: “System Restore“
4. From the list of search results, select System Restore
5. If the system asks for your administrator password, type the password
6. Click Next
7. At the Restore system fields and settings screen, select Choose a different restore
point
8. Click Next
9. Select a restore point from the available list
10.Click Next
11.Click Finish
12.Click Yes to confirm
13.The software will now start and your computer will reboot
14.After your computer boots back, at the “System Restore completed successfully”
confirmation message, click Close
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Using the created backup image
1. Click Start , and then click Control Panel.
2. Under System and Security, click Back up your computer.
The Backup and Restore Center opens.
3. Click Recover system settings or your computer.
4.Under System Restore, click Advanced recovery methods.

5.On the Advanced Recovery Methods page, click Use a system image you created
earlier to recover your computer.
6.Before restoring from the system image, back up your files such as documents,
pictures, and music to an external hard disk, DVD, CD, or USB flash drive. After the
recovery process is complete, Windows prompts to restore these files.
If you have created any files since you created the system image disks, you should
click Back up now to save copies of your recent files.
If you have a current back up of your files, click Skip.
7.Click Restart to continue the recovery.
8.If the system image files are on a CD or DVD, insert the first CD or DVD into the
disc drive.
9.If the files are on an external hard disk drive, connect the hard disk drive to the
computer.
When Windows restarts, choose your keyboard input method, and then click Next.
10.Click Use the latest available system image (recommended), and then
click Next.
11.On the Choose additional restore options page, click Next.
12.On the confirmation page, click Finish. Then click Yes. Windows begins to
restore the computer.
13.If using DVDs, insert the requested disk when prompted, and then click OK.
Follow the on-screen directions to completely restore the computer. This might take
from a few minutes to a few hours. When Windows is finished restoring the
computer, it automatically restarts.
14.If you created a user file backup before restoring the computer, you can restore
those files now by clicking Restore my files, and following the on-screen
instructions.
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Disk Defragmentation
1. Choose Start→Control Panel→System and Security.
The Administrative Tools window appears.
2. Click Defragment Your Hard Drive.
3. Click the Analyze Disk button.

This step checks whether your disk requires defragmenting. A drive with 10 percent or
more fragmentation should be defragmented. (If you’ve been using your computer for a
while, the drive may show 50 percent fragmentation or more.)
4. When the analysis is complete, click the Defragment Disk button.
5. Click Close.
The Disk Defragment dialog box and the Control Panel close.
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Disk Clean-up
Run from My Computer

To open Disk Cleanup on a Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer, follow these steps:
1. Click Start
2. Go to All Programs > Accessories > System Tools
3. Click Disk Cleanup
4. Choose what type of files and folders to delete at the Files to delete section
5. Click OK
6. To delete system files that are no longer needed, click Clean up system files. You
may be
prompted by UAC (User Account Control) to confirm the action.
7. Click Delete Files
To free more space, go to the More options tab:
 Click Clean up at the Programs and Features section to remove program files that
are no longer needed
 Click Clean up at the System Restore and Shadow Copies section to remove restore
points, except the last one
Run from Command Prompt

To open Disk Cleanup via Command Prompt (command line) on a Windows Vista or
Windows 7:
1. Open Command Prompt

2. Type cleanmgr
3. Press Enter
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Creating System Restore Point

Create a restore point

9.Windows saves the system image.

12.Click Yes to confirm

4.Under System Restore, click Advanced recovery methods.

3. Click the Analyze Disk button.

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Run from Command Prompt

1. Open Command Prompt

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