Quote Originally Posted by kutlesh View Post
The last time I used System Restore was on my old Windows XP PC at home, and it went wrong.
Well, I am not saying it doesn't work, or its a bad Windows feature, but I wouldn't go into adventure on my work computer
Are there Restore points available in your computer ?
Is there one recent enough to attempt a roll back, to see if that fixes your problem ?
If so I would do the following -

1) Use an imaging program such as Seagate DiscWizard -
https://www.seagate.com/au/en/suppor...ds/discwizard/
It is free, provided that your internel drive, or one of your connected drives, is a Seagate.
(If you are a Western Digital man, I believe they too provide a free DiscWizard)

2) Create an image to an external drive.
I like to use the bootable version of the DiscWizard, so that Windows is not running
(Particularly with all the ..@#$%^&*.. running in the background these days)

3) Verify/Validate the image

4) Rollback your Windows to an earlier Restore Point, to see if that fixes your problem.

5) If it doesn't you can always restore your drive back to before you read this post.