Point-in-Time restore saved my sanity

Was messing with Windhawk and broke my taskbar icons. Figured System Restore would fix it—except it didn't. Ended up in a GSOD loop that kept dumping me into WinRE. Tried everything, nothing worked.

Had Point-in-Time restore enabled but never used it. Gave it a shot anyway. Took forever and got stuck at 21% for a while—thought I was done for. But it eventually finished and booted Windows back up perfectly, exactly as it was two days ago.

System Restore failed. Point-in-Time saved it.