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messed it up. Best of all, System Restore doesn’t change your files. Your

email, pictures, music, documents, and other files are left up to date.

Tip
If your PC manages to catch a virus, System Restore can even rewind it to a time before the
infection—if the virus hasn’t gotten into your documents in such a way that you reinfect yourself
after the system restore. An up-to-date antivirus program (“Windows Security (the App)”) is a
much more effective security blanket.

In fact, if you don’t like your PC after restoring it, you can always restore it
to the way it was before you restored it. Back to the future!

Turning on System Restore

In the latest versions of Windows 10, the System Restore feature comes
turned off. It’s not protecting you until you turn it on.

To do that, open the System Protection dialog box shown in Figure 16-3.

Choose Configure, and then “Turn on system protection.” Use the slider to
designate a maximum amount of disk space you’re willing to dedicate to
this feature (see the box on the facing page.) Click OK.