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Maintaining Your System

This tutorial walks you through all the important tools you have at hand to make Windows 7 do what you need to do, to head off problems and to solve problems as they (inevitably!) occur.

Learn more:

  • Coping with Start-Up Problems

  • Creating a system repair disc

  • Using the system repair disc

  • Running in Safe Mode

  • Working with Backups

  • Restoring a file with shadow copies (previous versions)

  • Maintaining previous versions on different drives

  • Creating data backups

  • Managing and restoring data backups

  • Getting back the image backup

  • Maintaining Drives

  • Running an error check

  • Defragmenting a drive

  • Using System Restore and Restore Points and more

In this tutorial:

  1. Coping with Start-Up Problems
  2. Creating a system repair disc
  3. Using the system repair disc
  4. Running in Safe Mode
  5. Working with Backups
  6. Restoring a file with shadow copies (previous versions)
  7. Maintaining previous versions on different drives
  8. Creating data backups
  9. Managing and restoring data backups
  10. Getting back the image backup
  11. Maintaining Drives
  12. Running an error check
  13. Defragmenting a drive
  14. Using System Restore and Restore Points
  15. Creating a restore point
  16. Rolling back to a restore point
  17. Scheduling the Task Scheduler
  18. Starting with your parameters
  19. Scheduling a task
  20. Zipping and Compressing
  21. Compressing with NTFS
  22. Zipping the easy way with Compressed (zipped) Folders
  23. Using the Windows 7 Resource Monitor and Reliability Monitor
  24. Controlling the Control Panel
  25. Removing and changing programs