System Restore is a long-standing feature on Windows 11. Its purpose is to create snapshots of the computer's current working state and save them as "restore points" when specific events are triggered ...

Point-in-time restore is a new system restore feature in Windows 11. It lets you revert your PC to the exact state it was at an earlier point in time in minutes. You ...

System Restore is a lifesaver when things go wrong on your Windows 11/10 PC, but Windows only creates restore points once every 24 hours by default. It also creates a new System Restore point when an ...

Microsoft announced two new Windows 11 recovery features today at the Ignite developer conference, called Cloud Rebuild and Point-in-Time Restore (PITR), that aim to reduce downtime and make it easier ...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 creates System Restore points, that is, snapshots of your PC’s system files, settings and registry. But those points expire and are automatically deleted after 60 days, ...

Windows 11 users will need to keep a close eye on their operating system’s restore points if they want to be able to recover their PC after a major outage, Windows Latest reports. With the June update ...

If used properly, new features built into Windows 11 offer safe, nearly complete backup, restore, repair, and recovery operations without third-party tools — but there are some caveats worth knowing.

Microsoft has changed how Windows 11 manages System Restore points after its June 2025 security update. The update, KB5060842, says that starting with Windows 11 version 24H2, System Restore points ...