How to Restore a Computer to the Last Good Configuration

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Tip 1 - Using Last Known Good Configuration - Windows Help

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Rick Spiers | permalink

Answers to questions about this advanced startup option, such as how to restart Windows using the last settings that worked properly.

For further reading: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-last-known-good-configuration ^[1]

Tip 2 - How to load last known good configuration.

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Christian Arroyo | permalink

Steps on how to load last known good configuration on your Windows computer.

For further reading: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000626.htm ^[2]

Tip 3 - Can't Start Windows 7? Try Last Known Good Configuration

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Nikolay Grib | permalink

A complete tutorial on starting Windows 7 using Last Known Good Configuration. LKGC is a good first step when Windows 7 won't start.

For further reading: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ss/last-known-good-configuration-windows-7.htm ^[3]

Tip 4 - How to restore the Last Known Good Configuration feature in Windows 8.1

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by David Printy | permalink

As you know, Winaero is always focused on improving the usability of technology and especially Windows. If you love something special in Windows or in some other app or service that is no longer accessible or removed, I am always looking for solutions to your problems and sharing fixes and workarounds. Recently, I featured a unique site which revived desktop gadgets and sidebar complete with screenshots of all of them, shared an exclusive tutorial on how to restore the missing Briefcase feature and showed how to unlock the Start Screen pinning ability for all files. In this article, I would like to share with you a new way I discovered to unlock the Last Known Good Configuration feature in Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 which Microsoft silently disabled. Let me explain why you might need it. Windows 8 and its successor, Windows 8.1 have more automatic diagnostics built-in than any previous version of Windows to inspect booting related issues and automatically repair them. Startup repair
Tags: enable f8 boot menu,enable restore last known good configuration,windows 8,windows 8.1

For further reading: http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-restore-the-last-known-good-configuration-feature-in-windows-8-1/ ^[4]