Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Bill Smithers Volunteer Moderator. You may or may not have a manufacturer's recovery partition imaged onto your hard drive to do what you want to do if XP came preinstalled Acer, Dell, HP, etc.
How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. It might work. If not, maybe your OS is corrupt. Yes No. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 1. Usually, recently installed programs are uninstalled during a System Restore. It's important to keep the setup executables or archives of your programs on a separate drive or an external hard drive if you don't want to download them again. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 0.
Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. By using this service, some information may be shared with YouTube. Helpful 14 Not Helpful 7. This is a great tool if you add a program or do an update and your computer goes down.
You can also follow these steps and create a restore point as well. This works by going to the System restore window and selecting "Create a restore point". Just put the name you want eg. Post Views: 13, Join Our Newsletter Learn about the latest security threats, system optimization tricks, and the hottest new technologies in the industry.
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From this screen you can select a "restore to" date from the calendar. So, if you knew that your computer worked fine two days ago, just pick that date and click "Next. The next screen is the confirmation window.
Just verify the information on the screen and click "Next. The System Restore process can take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes depending on how much reconfiguration Windows XP needs to do and how fast a PC you have. When System Restore is done, a screen will pop up with the results of the restore.
If it was successful, you can then log into the system and start using the computer again. Any problem issues that you were having are now hopefully gone. Use this option when you want to force Windows XP to take a snapshot of your system just before you install a program or alter any system settings that you are not sure of.
System Restore is like a safety net for when you install system drivers video, audio, etc or any internet programs sometimes riddled with malicious worms and spyware.
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