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What is System Restore: Windows System Restore is an awesome system recovery tool, and it's included with Windows for free. It's the ideal solution for rolling back bad drivers, fixing when buggy software breaks your PC, or simply rolling you back to a previous point in time.   System Restore in Windows 7 Is Better than XP: If you've ever tried the XP variety of System Restore, the uselessness of it probably left a bad taste in your mouth. Setting a system restore point was often agonizingly slow, and when it came time to actually attempt a system restore, it rarely did what you wanted it to do. But if you've upgraded to Vista or Windows 7, you should really give System Restore another chance.   Back in the XP days, system restore simply used a file filter and copied files around, but since Vista, it uses the Shadow Copy features built into Windows—essentially, Windows can create a snapshot of your drive as of a certain point in time, which can then be used la...

To kill non-responding or hung  or frozen applications, normally one opens the Task Manager, and right clicks on the process and selects End Task. But you can also create a desktop shortcut to kill such non-responding applications in a click. To do so, right click on an empty area on your desktop. Select New>Shortcut. In the first box of the Create Shortcut Wizard, type : taskkill.exe /f /fi “status eq not responding” Click Next. Name the shortcut  TaskKill. (or what ever you like) Click Finish. Then select an appropriate icon for it ! The shortcut uses the Taskkill command to identify and terminate application/s that are Not Responding. Or you could create a .bat file (right click desktop > New > Notepad) with the following matter: @echo off taskkill.exe /f /fi “status eq not responding” exit Save it as .bat file. and if you want to create a hot key for the .bat file then create a shortcot to it. In the shortcut properties, "Shortcut t...