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Backups and restore points

Back up your PC with one click, what you get, and how to roll back a change through Windows.

Before Diagnosly changes your PC it tries to leave you a way back. You can also take a backup yourself at any time. It's free.

What a backup is

Back up now saves two things:

  • A Windows restore point. A Windows System Restore snapshot you can roll your PC back to.
  • A copy of your settings. Startup items, services and installed programs, saved to a folder on your PC that you can open.

If Windows can't make a restore point (System Protection can be switched off or blocked on some PCs), you still get the settings copy and the panel tells you why.

Taking a backup

  1. Open Settings, then Backup and restore.
  2. Press Back up now. It can take a few minutes.

The panel then shows when you last backed up, the restore point number, and whether the settings copy was saved. The pill at the top reads No backup yet, Restore point ready or Settings saved only.

You can take one backup every 15 minutes per PC. That stops a run of bad changes from pushing your good restore points out of Windows' list.

Backups that happen automatically

If a diagnosis proposes a change, it makes a restore point before it runs unless you untick it on the plan card or you already backed up within the last 10 minutes. To make this work Diagnosly may turn on System Protection for your system drive if it was off, and lifts Windows' limit of one restore point a day so the point isn't skipped.

Rolling back

Diagnosly doesn't roll changes back itself. You do it through Windows, and the Backup panel has buttons to get there:

  • Open System Restore starts the Windows restore wizard.
  • System Protection settings opens the Windows settings for restore points.
  • Open backup folder shows the saved copy of your settings.

Windows may ask for permission before opening these. Windows manages old restore points by itself and may remove the oldest ones. Your settings copies are kept separately.

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