Hi Roger, You can start a system restore in Windows XP in two ways, probably more! One, go the run dialog and type MSConfig and hit enter. Tab to the launch system restore button and hit enter. Or to go the accessories submenu on your programs menu and go into system tools and enter on system restore. On the first page, choose the radio button for restore my computer to an earlier Time and press alt N for next. when you come to the page that has the calendar, as you are arrowing down the page you will come to the calendar. As you arrow down, you will hear something about going to the previous month, then the current month and year for example August 2002, then about going to the next month. If you keep arrowing you will hear sun mon tue wed and so and then you will come to where it starts reading dates like 1 2 3 4 5 and so on. When you find the day of the current calendar month you want to restore to, hit enter on the date. Then tab once. You will hear something about going to the previous day then arrow down and you will hear the date you picked for example Thursday August 29, then something about going to the next day. Then arrow down one more time and you will start hearing the restore points for that day. When you are on the one you want to restore to, press alt N for next. The next page should come up and ask you to confirm that is the day and time you want to restore to. Source: http://www.jfwlite.com/messagesWindows/Windows%20XP%20-%20System%20Restore.t xt Cheers, Mark P.S. You didn't mention your OS, but i was tossing up on it being an NT flavour of Windows. Mark Matthews Cardiff, Wales, UK E-mail:mark.matthews53@xxxxxxxxxxxx MSN/Windows Messenger:markmatthews3@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype:mmatthews1981 Webpage: <http://www.qsl.net/gw0wgk> http://www.qsl.net/gw0wgk -----Original Message----- From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Fordham Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 8:13 AM To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] System Restore Hi, Not really a jaws question, but could anyone tell me how to use System Restore. I've looked at it in Control panel, and am none the wiser. Please, if you can, email me off-list. I want to return my computer to the state it was in about a week ago. Cheers Roger Roger@xxxxxxxxxxx