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My Old Windows Restore Points Were Wasting So Much Space—You Should Check Yours Too

System Restore is a valuable safety feature, but it doesn't need to take over your hard drive. By checking how much space it's using, deleting old restore points, and setting a reasonable storage ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I disabled fast startup because Windows never really shuts down, and that explains a lot of strange bugs

Windows Fast Startup sometimes breaks updates and hardware checks.
Ars Technica

Best way to restore Windows 7 boxes to factory condition

Most prebuilt/OEM systems I've seen come with a system restore partition, or a utility that will let you make a set of restore disks. For any system I get rid of (personal, or business) I run Kill ...
Ars Technica

Malware disabled Windows Firewall, Update, System Restore, etc. Can this be undone?

I cleaned out the hijackware and start-up stuff with HijackThis! and got rid of the trojans and the crapware apps that they installed, but I now am sitting with a pretty much useless Windows 7 ...