How to Enable System Restore (and Repair System Problems) on Windows 10

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Enable, Disable, and PIN Protect Voice Purchasing on Your Amazon Echo How to Enable System Restore (and Repair System Problems) on Windows 10 What is a TPM, and Why Does Windows Need One For Disk Encryption? What to Do If You Forget Your Mac’s Password What Are the thumbs.db, desktop.ini, and .DS_Store Files? How to Setup, Tweak, and Use Your New Apple Watch Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Bespoke Software Bespoke Software is a term used to refer to custom and made-to-order software products. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Open Source Software Went Nuclear This Year Open source software has exploded and improved everything from behind the scenes network management to mobile electronics. [Wired] Robot panic peaked in 2015 - so where will AI go next? This year experts from Elon Musk to Stephen Hawking warned about the havoc robots could cause the economy and humanity. How do we ensure machines are friends rather than foes? [The Guardian] NASA's Virtual Safety Net Crashes Rogue Drones Before They Enter No-Fly Zones With the number of drones consistently on the rise, as well as the number of dangerous accidents and security breaches, NASA has decided to take a shot at keeping the flying devices in check. [DIY Photography] Design Advance Could Mean Commercial Light-Based Processors Within a Few Years A team of engineers from MIT, UC Berkeley, and the University of Colorado have overcome a major barrier to light-based computers, offering a means to move beyond the increasingly limited world of electricity-based computing without moving too far beyond the technologies used to implement that world. [Motherboard] The best video games of 2015, as picked by the Ars editors It was a fantastic year for video games of all genres; check out the Ars' editors breakdown of the gems of 2015. [ArsTechnica] How to Enable, Disable, and PIN Protect Voice Purchasing on Your Amazon Echo There’s a whole host of tricks your Amazon Echo is capable of and, among them, is a pretty neat one: you can order products right off Amazon using voice commands. Read on as we show you how to enable it, disable it, and add a PIN protection code to the ordering process. Read This Article → How to Enable System Restore (and Repair System Problems) on Windows 10 With Windows 10, Microsoft seems to have disabled System Restore by default — at least on some PCs. System Restore has been around since Windows ME, creating snapshots of system files you can restore if a problem occurs. Read This Article → What is a TPM, and Why Does Windows Need One For Disk Encryption? BitLocker disk encryption normally requires a TPM on Windows. Microsoft’s EFS encryption can never use a TPM. The new “device encryption” feature on Windows 10 and 8.1 also requires a modern TPM, which is why it’s only enabled on new hardware. But what is a TPM? Read This Article → What to Do If You Forget Your Mac’s Password Can’t remember your Mac’s password? Don’t worry. With the default settings, you can simply try logging into your Mac. Fail enough times and you’ll be able to reset your password with your Apple ID. But this won’t always work. Read This Article → What Are the thumbs.db, desktop.ini, and .DS_Store Files? Tell your file manager to show hidden files and you’ll see quite a few junk files scattered across your folders. Windows creates thumbs.db and desktop.ini files in many folders, and Mac OS X creates .DS_Store files. Read This Article → How to Setup, Tweak, and Use Your New Apple Watch Got a shiny new Apple Watch for Christmas? You're probably wondering how to set it up and what to do with it. It's a very useful smartwatch that can do many things. Read on to find out how to set up your Apple Watch, tweak its settings, and learn the many ways you can use it. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Linux from Scratch Linux from Scratch describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the source code of software that you need. Click here to download