Windows 8 registry restore. Windows system restore

Windows 8 System Restore may be required when you encounter critical errors in PC operation. So that the user does not have to completely reinstall the OS, special tools are provided that allow you to restore the computer even without deleting files and changing general system settings. In this article, you will learn how to start recovery of a computer or laptop on Win 8 in different ways.

Two scenarios for the development of events are considered below: from a working operating system and with a faulty one. In the first case, you can restore from the Windows 8 interface without a disk or flash drive, and in the second, you will need bootable media to copy system files. All methods are shown below:

• rollback from a restore point;
• using Refresh your PC;
• reset to factory settings on a laptop;
• recovery with boot disk or flash drives.

Let's consider each of the methods in detail. All instructions are fully working and suitable for any Windows builds 8 32/64 Bit.

System restore point

This method allows you to roll back the OS to a certain state. You must do the following:

1. Open File Explorer using the icon on the taskbar.

1. In the left directory, find the item "This PC" and right-click on it to select "Properties" from the menu.

1. In the window that opens, click on the "System Protection" button.

1. In the selected tab, click on the "Restore" button.

1. On the first screen, click on "Next".

1. From the list, select a checkpoint according to the date when the state of the computer was stable and working. Click Next.

1. To start the procedure, click the "Finish" button.

Now you know how to use a checkpoint to roll back the OS state.

Create a checkpoint

If you are not configured automatic creation breakpoints, you can do it manually. This option is useful in case of problems with the OS in the future:

1. Open the Properties window again and click on System Protection.

1. Next, click on the "Create" button marked in the screenshot.

1. Enter a name and click Create.

1. Wait until the end of the procedure. After it, the current OS configuration will be saved as checkpoint. You can easily restore given state in the event of a Windows 8 malfunction using the above instructions.

Rollback through "Options"

Windows 8 first introduced the Refresh Your PC tool. With it, the user can roll back the state of the OS to the required one. You can save applications and settings, reset your PC to factory settings, completely reinstall the system, or launch a safe environment and perform the necessary actions through it.

First you need to open "Computer Settings":

1. Right-click on the "Start" icon and select "Find".

1. In the search bar, enter the query "computer settings" and open the appropriate application.

1. In the list of partitions, select Update and Recovery.

1. Go to the "Recovery" subsection. Here are tools that allow you to restore the original state of the OS or start safe mode.

The first option (1) allows you to restore the factory Windows settings 8 without losing personal files, music, photos, etc. With the help of the second item (2) you can call up the menu for full reinstallation OS and return it to the factory preset settings. However, all personal files and installed apps will be removed. By clicking on the button in the third paragraph (3), you can call up a safe environment and continue settings through it. The first two options allow you to roll back the system from under the Windows 8 interface.

It is worth dwelling on the secure environment in more detail, since advanced functionality awaits you there.

Click on the "Restart now" button and wait - on the screen you will see how the menu starts with the choice of action. Click on Diagnostics.

As you can see, here you can perform all the same operations as in the Windows 8 interface. However, the diagnostic menu can come in handy if the OS does not boot. Click on the "Advanced options" button to go to advanced functionality. With it, you can:

• roll back the OS to a checkpoint;
• use a wim image for recovery;
• rollback system via command line.

Let's consider all the possibilities in more detail. We dealt with the first point above - the procedure is no different from performing in running Windows 8.

By clicking on "System Image Recovery", you launch a program to automatically unpack a pre-created wim archive. It should contain the entire OS with personal settings and programs. You can connect a disk or flash drive to your computer to unpack a third-party wim image. This way you get a complete system.

"Command line" allows you to run the rollback procedure using simple commands. Click on the appropriate button to launch the application. Now enter the command "rstrui.exe" and press Enter to run. After that, you will get access to the menu with restoring the PC through the checkpoint.

You can launch this menu through bootable media if the installed OS does not work correctly and does not start. Let's consider such a situation.

Performing the procedure using a flash drive

To perform the procedure in this way will require some preparation. First, you need to create bootable media. To do this, you need to visit the official Microsoft website, where the Windows 8 web installer is located and download it to another computer. The bootloader will download the OS files and create the boot drive automatically.

Secondly, you need to make settings through the BIOS. To do this, when starting the PC, press the button responsible for entering the BIOS menu (it is indicated on home screen turning on the computer). Go to the Boot menu and install bootable flash drive in first place in the download priority. To save the settings, press F10 and restart the PC again.

Now, when you turn it on, you will see the installer menu. Here you will find the possibility of uninstalling, reinstalling the system, formatting hard drive. The creators also highlighted the recovery function in a separate menu:

1. Select the desired item and start the procedure.

Rollback on a laptop with a preinstalled operating system

Notebook manufacturers that sell devices with pre-installed software provide the ability to roll back using proprietary utilities and funds. Part of the hard drive space is allocated for recovery, so in a couple of steps you can start the procedure for returning the PC to its original settings.

It refers to Asus laptops, Lenovo, Acer, HP and more. Consider the procedure on the example of Acer Iconia tab w5100. By default, this company uses the keyboard shortcut Alt + F10 , which must be pressed on the initial boot screen with the Acer logo.

You will see the "Acer eRecovery Management" menu. Select the marked item.

After that, wait until the end of the procedure. During the process, the laptop may restart several times. You can cancel the recovery process only by restarting the PC. After the end of the rollback, you will receive a device with factory settings.

The names of the utilities and how to access them differ depending on the laptop manufacturer, but this example you can easily restore Windows 8 on any device.

Conclusion

Using the described methods, you can return the working or original state of Windows 8 in almost any situation. Use checkpoints to restore your computer to its previous state. The Refresh Your PC functionality is useful when you roll back your PC to factory settings. A safe environment is useful if Windows 8 does not start - the necessary tools can be opened through a bootable USB flash drive.

Video

Below you can watch a training video that clearly shows all the steps in this article. Together with the video instruction, you will be able to understand the difficulties and restore your computer without outside help.

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Bought a laptop 2 years ago Acer Aspire v5-122p preinstalled with Windows 8 64-bit (I don't remember the edition). Then after some time it was automatically updated to 8.1. The last 2 months there were frequent freezes in the system, and I delayed everything with the restoration Windows systems. A week ago, the system once again hung heavily and I had to urgently turn off the laptop by holding the shutdown button. After that, the following problem arose and is not eliminated. After turning on the laptop, the acer logo appears and the download icon spins for about 40 seconds and the message "There was a problem on your computer, you need to restart it" is displayed on a blue background. After this message, the computer restarts itself and starts "Preparing automatic recovery", the download icon spins for 30 seconds and then everything disappears, there is nothing, the black background just glows without any messages, but the laptop seems to continue to work, but does not respond to any actions, except for an emergency shutdown of the laptop. And so all the time .

I did not bother to make a boot disk, a USB flash drive from under the system, when the system was still working fine. Having studied the materials on your site, I tried to do the following. I downloaded images with Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 English through mediacreationtool, in it I also made bootable USB flash drives separately with Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 English, I also tried to make bootable USB flash drives through the WinSetupFromUSB_1-4_x64 and rufus programs with these images. I did it according to your materials, initially I tried to do it through these programs with formatting in FAT32 with a scheme GPT bootable flash drive for BIOS UEFI, while changing nothing in the BIOS, UEFI was enabled with secure boot, set the boot priority to the first USB HDD, also, by pressing the f12 button, I could select the bootable USB flash drive connected to the laptop, as a result, after these manipulations, the acer logo and the boot icon did not appear for long, and after that the black background glows again without anything. I also tried to disable D2D RECOVERY, even then in the BIOS I wrote the path in the select an uefi file as trusted for executing item in usb1 the path to the BOOTX64.efi file, which is on the flash drive, but the result is the same.

Then I decided to go differently. According to the article "How to disable Secure Boot on Acer laptop Aspire" I disabled secure boot to disabled by setting a password, then switched UEFI to Legacy in boot mode. I set boot priorities from usb hdd in the BIOS, then through the WinSetupFromUSB_1-4_x64 and rufus programs I formatted it in NTFS with MBR and made bootable flash drives. When I connected this flash drive to the laptop in usb 2.0 and by clicking on f12 I selected my bootable USB flash drive, the laptop rebooted, after a while the Windows 8 logo appeared with a blue background with a download icon, but it didn’t get to the points to install Windows and restore the system, again the black background covered the boot.

In this appearing black background, the whole problem is, for some reason I can’t start the bootable USB flash drives to the end with Windows.

But two other facts are noteworthy, when I write all sorts of programs like eset.nod32, Victoria and some other Live CD programs to a bootable USB flash drive, then everything is fine, they boot from the flash drive and there is no black background, not even any freezes.

These days it got to the point where I even had to initially disassemble my laptop because of this problem, removed the RAM, HDD. I disconnected the wires, the drive, cleaned the video card from dust, carefully applied new thermal paste, but unfortunately this did not affect the solution of this problem. And I wondered if it was a hardware or software problem.

I decided in the end to start a laptop without a hard drive with a bootable flash drive not from under UEFI, it turned out interesting fact, the Windows 8 logo with a blue background, the download icon, and finally the items appeared to install Windows and restore the system, i.e. there were no black screens, at that moment I decided to put the hard drive back in, there was no black screen, but when I tried to restore or install the system, there were such errors the disk is locked, unlock it and reboot, also the blue background "Your PC needs to be repeired" file:boot/BCD.......

As a result, I left for 1 day with experiments with the Victoria program from under DOS, SMART sort of gave the status to the "GOOD" disk, found 8 defective bad blocks during the test, ADVANCED REMAP sort of corrected them first, then when I re-pass again 6 pieces I detected and at the same addresses, but the SMART status for the disk like "GOOD" remained.

Therefore, now I am puzzled and cannot understand, after all, the black screen is a trick of the hard drive due to some kind of hardware problem or a software problem, but then what is this paradox with a black screen and how to get rid of it after all.

Those. in this moment I can’t achieve in any way that I can run the bootable USB flash drive to the end with Windows without a black background with a connected hard drive, and as I said earlier, many other eset.nod.32 programs, victoria from LIVE CD, when the hard drive is connected, start normally without a black background.

Thank you in advance for your response.

Due to the presence of viruses, mismatched drivers or software, the OS may fail. If your Windows crashes, don't panic. The situation can be corrected by returning the state of files and programs to the moment when the PC was working properly.

While running OS Windows 7, 10 or 8, certain errors and problems may occur. As a result of these failures new launch operating system in operating mode becomes impossible. In this case, it is not at all necessary to do a laborious reinstallation of the OS. It is enough to perform a system restore.

OS recovery using the recovery environment

At work, we use the following scheme of actions:

1. Reboot the computer, press the F8 key during boot;
2. Troubleshooting;
3. System restore, OS restore point selection;
4. click "Further" and again "Further";
5. We press the button "Ready", reboot the system (in the Menu, select boot with the last known good configuration).

There are several ways that you can resort to resuming the operation of the OS. Some of them are based on reverting to saved settings. Others simply clear the data.

You can perform "resuscitation" of the OS in one of the following ways:

• by selecting restore points;
• using the command line;
• through safe mode;
• using the recovery environment;
• using an image/boot disk.

Restoring the operating system using system "resuscitation" checkpoints is one of the most affordable, effective and popular options. To apply it, you need to make a series of clicks:

1. Panel "Start";
2. "System Restore";
3. "Further";
4. "Select a restore point";
5. "Ready".

This operation will fix the problems with the computer, undo the changes and return the system to a working state that allowed the PC to boot normally. Loss of data, files and documents does not occur during such recovery. All data is saved. The operation is reversible. You can roll back the system to a previous state of the computer and use a different restore point.

Many people ask themselves how to make a recovery point on their own (manually) in order to choose it in the future? To do this, in the same menu "Start" - "System Restore" You can create such a point yourself at any convenient and suitable time for you. It will be saved with the current date, which can only be remembered.

From a restore point

In computer engineering, there is such a thing as a restore point. These are saved PC settings. As a rule, saving occurs automatically with each successful OS boot. The easiest way to resume Windows 7 is to use exactly this data.

Press F8 when the computer boots up. This command will bring up a menu of system startup options. Next, select the Last Known Good Configuration option.

You can also use another method. Enter the properties of the My Computer folder. Find the System protection line, clicking on which you will open the dialog box of the same name. Click Recovery - Next. We set a key date, indicate the disks that are subject to correction, and confirm the actions. After rebooting, the PC should work normally.

No restore points

You can fix OS problems without having restore points. To do this, you will need to resort to the LiveCD program. It needs to be downloaded and written to a USB flash drive with the .iso extension.
Further, all actions will take place in the BIOS. You need to configure boot from a flash drive. To do this, in the Boot section, select USB-HDD in the First boot device line.

Before proceeding directly to recovery, copy all required files on the removable drive. The LiveCD program provides a special menu for these purposes.

We will fix system error using a backup copy. Connect the flash drive, open the folder Windows\System32\config\ . Files with the names default, sam, security, software, system must be moved to any other folder. In their place, we transfer similar files from the RegBack folder and restart the computer.

The described method will only help if the problem is related to the registry.

Command line

You can resort to "reanimating" Windows 7 from the command line if the PC begins to freeze or work slowly, however, the system boots up. Enter the menu "Start" and using the right mouse button, launch the command prompt as an administrator. Issue the rstrui.exe command, which will open the System Restore program. Click "Further". In the next window, select the desired rollback point and click again "Further". Upon completion of the process, the PC should work normally.

You can enter the utility in another way. We go to "Start". To call the command line, press "Run" and prescribe cmd command. We click on the found file CMD.exe and wait for the launch. Next, enter rstrui.exe on the command line and confirm the action with the Enter key on the keyboard.

It is not always possible to play it safe and create OS restore points in advance. There may be problems that block the option of such a "resuscitation" of the PC. Then you can use another, no less effective and easy option - restoring the Windows system using the system itself.

Based on the diagram:

1. Icon "My computer"- right mouse button "Properties";
2. "System Protection";
3. In a new window, click "System Protection", restore button;
4. "Further";
5. Choose a restore point according to the date;
6. Specify the system disks to be restored;
7. Confirm the operations and reboot the system.

Restoring Windows 7 using Safe Mode

This method is preferred if the usual system boot is not possible. Then after pressing the power button on the PC on system unit hold down the F8 key to call "Launch Menu". One of the menu options is « Safe mode» . Select it and press Enter on the keyboard. As soon as Windows loads, we perform the algorithm of actions that we described earlier.

System Restore Windows 8/8.1

If you were able to start the OS, you can resume Windows 8 via "Options". Hover over right top corner and enter them. Click on "Changing computer settings" – . Chapter "Recovery" will offer several options:

1. "Typical Restore with Information Preservation".
2. "Delete data and reinstall OS".
3. "Special Option".

Decide exactly what needs to be done. Then follow the menu prompts.

If you choose last way, in the window that opens, click on the diagnostics item. You will be offered the following options:

• "Reestablish";
• "Return to original state";
• "Extra options". This item includes the ability to roll back to the desired resume point.

To resume Windows 8.1 press Win+R and call sysdm.cpl . In the system properties window, on the tab "Protection" indicate the required system disk. Click "Reestablish". Clicking "Further", you will be able to see a list of rollback points. Select the one you want and click "Search for affected programs". Changes that have been made to the PC since the selected moment will be deleted. End the process by clicking "Ready".

In the case of working with Windows 8, there may be problems, incorrect Internet operation, etc. To fix this, you can use the classic recovery method through restore points.

Another option is to roll back the system. To do this, open the menu "Start" - "Control Panel" - "Center Windows updates» . Choose an item "Uninstall updates". You can do the same using the command line.

So, in the list of updates that opens, we remove those of them, from the moment of installation of which (we look at the date) problems and malfunctions began. Delete junk files and do a reboot.

In Windows 8.1, you can perform a factory reset. Important Files will not be affected during this operation. The method is effective, but for its implementation, the OS needs to boot without any problems. We use the algorithm:

1. Right side of the monitor - "Options";
2. "Change settings";
3. "Renewal and Recovery" - "Recovery";
4. "Recovery without deleting files".

If you log in in the usual way you can not, you must use the disk with the system. Load the installation disk, select "System Restore". We press the button "Diagnostics", and "Reestablish".

If you're having problems with Windows 10, press Windows + Pause. Go to "System Protection" and press "Reestablish" – "Further". Select the desired indicator and click again "Further". When finished, press "Ready". The computer will automatically restart and the changes will take effect.

One of the advantages of the "dozens" is the ability to return the settings to the factory settings. This helps avoid having to install the system first. To reset your data go to "Computer Settings" – "Update and Security" – "Recovery" – "Reset your computer". Click "To begin".

You can take care of the possibility of rollback in case of failure in advance. Resume points can be created manually or configured to be automatically created at the desired frequency. To do this, in the settings, in the Update and security item, select the Backup service. Specify where to save copies, click Add disk. After selecting a device, the function will be activated.

You can restore the Windows 10 system again through the use of restore points. In this case, the system will be rolled back to the moment when it was freely loaded and worked without failures. This method recovery is described at the beginning of the article.

If the OS is not loaded, then a warning table appears on the screen with the key "Additional recovery options". Click it and choose "Diagnostics" - "System Restore". Making a choice of control point Windows recovery, waiting for the system to roll back and reboot.

If these operations did not help and the computer continues to work incorrectly, you can roll back to basic settings. Some programs and utilities, personal PC settings will be reset, and personal data will be deleted.

This technique is used extremely rarely if the other options described above do not help. The algorithm of actions in this case is as follows:

1. "Start" - "Setting options"- tab "Updates and security";
2. Paragraph "Recovery"- button "To begin";
3. Choose to delete all files or save some of them.

The system rollback after that will take 40-90 minutes.

Resume using the installation disc

One of the radical methods of correcting the error involves the use of installation disk. After running it in BIOS, click System Restore. In the Troubleshooting section, select the desired action. Then follow the system prompts to complete the process.

Hello everyone, today I will tell you how to solve the error the resource protection program found corrupted files, it popped up when I tried to install the NFS server. The meaning of this error is that it is damaged Windows storage or as in the common people system files Windows. Today we're going to take a look at how recovery works. windows files to restore our server to operational state.

In the Event Viewer log, you may encounter an error Windows Resource Protection found corrupted files. Let's use the DISM utility to repair damaged files. Open command prompt as administrator. Enter the command must be typed exactly as written, because the utility is case sensitive.

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /ScanHealth

We see that the utility has found that the component store is recoverable, for this we enter the command

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth

Vault recovery starts

If successful, the command will display the following text: Restore completed successfully. The component store corruption has been fixed.

The DISM utility has a number of options. But, since the owners of pre-installed systems often do not even have an installation disk, we will skip these details. The /Online switch means that the changes will be applied to the running OS. Let's check again with the team