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System Restore Point Shortcut - Windows 7 Help Forums Having tried unsuccessfully to program Task Scheduler (in 8.1), I found at the above site in Windows 7 forums a shortcut for a script which supposedly simplifies manual creation of a System Restore point. However when I use it the Restore...

To be able to avoid some of the bugs that seem to keep cropping up in this lousy operating system.

I have installed several programs on the new computer that I had on the old one. but none, as far as I know, start automatically. e.g., Revo Uninstaller, Speccy, CCleaner, Irfan View, VLC Media Player, Rainlender2. I use all of them, and rather than uninstalling any, I'd rather just keep doing...

The first thing I did was reboot the computer - no help. Since Win 8.1 does not create daily restore points (like XP) I would have to select a restore point several days ago and lose the stuff I have been trying to get loaded on this new computer. Fortunately, I found that I can bring up the...

I am struggling to set the Task Scheduler in Win 8.1 to set a daily Restore Point and also to schedule Windows Defender to automatically update itself then run a full scan at a specified time daily. When I try to program the Win Defender function, I find that when I select the Win Defender...

The start button at the lower left corner of my desktop now turns blue when I hover the mouse over it, and, more importantly, when I right click on it the popup menu no longer appears