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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. ...
Point-in-Time recovery (often using Volume Shadow Copy or a third-party imaging tool like Veeam, Macrium, or Windows Server's native PiT) works at the block level. It doesn't care about files, registry hives, or application states—it takes a complete snapshot of your entire system volume at a specific moment.