

System Restore works with available restore points to roll Windows back in time. Turn off your PC: Tells the PC to shut down.Īdvanced options provide a great deal of power and capability to those who know (or learn) how to use them.Advanced options are where the real repair and recovery action is, depicted and explained below. Reset this PC re-installs the OS, with the ability to keep or remove files already present. Troubleshoot: Offers options to Reset This PC or Advanced Options.Use another operating system: Permits the user to pick from a list of other available OS images from which to boot the PC.


Also, the repair disc offers a variety of basic Windows repair and recovery capabilities, under the various headings shown in the following boot-time menu when the Recovery options are elected. The entire thing is 396 MB in size, which makes it as compact a modern Windows runtime environment as I know of. It brings up a standard Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) - in fact, the same one that’s installed by default on the 500 MB Recovery partition whenever you clean install or upgrade to the latest Windows 10 version.

Ed TittelĪfter creating this disc, you may then use it to boot a non-functioning system. Then click ‘Close’ in the window shown below, and click ‘OK’ to exit the create repair disc utility. When it’s completed, use a Sharpie to label the newly created disc as directed.
