Microsoft's new Windows 11 recovery tool is the ultimate Undo button - how to enable it
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- The Point-in-time Restore feature is now available for all Windows editions.
- It takes daily snapshots of the system state to help recover from a serious problem.
- If your system drive is 200 GB or larger, the feature is on by default.
Do you remember July 19, 2024? The great CrowdStrike-Windows meltdown?
Say that date to a network admin in any big company and watch them shudder at the memory.
Starting at 12:09 AM, Eastern Daylight Time, 8.5 million Windows PCs, including machines owned by half the Fortune 500 and the top US cybersecurity agency, began spiraling into Blue Screen of Death reboot loops. The only recovery option was for an admin to personally visit each machine, reboot it into the Windows Recovery Environment, and remove the defective CrowdStrike file that was causing the crashes. Restart the...
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