For recovery in Windows system you need to learn how to enable the recovery environment inside your computer. Enabling this is very helpful when your computer has one unexpected system shutdown and when you restart it it has faults.
Sometimes you even need to know the settings that Windows Recovery gives you, to know if it’s worth it activate the recovery environment. Next, we’ll show you what options you have in Windows Recovery, how to know if Windows Recovery is active, and a couple of other things.
What kind of settings can you make within Windows recovery?
Windows Recovery gives you a couple of options for repair the operating system when it fails to start. There are a total of 3 options, which help you repair the system. There is ‘System Troubleshooting’, also ‘System Restore’ and finally ‘System Repair’.
Such 3 options are the ones that help you solve each of the problems that presents your computer with respect to the system. However, let’s talk a little more about each of those options that Windows Recovery gives you.
Initial repair
Startup repair is the first option you will find in the ‘Windows Recovery’ window inside your computer. What ‘Home Repair’ does is find the reason why the computer cannot start successfully as it is supposed to do.
Once ‘Startup Repair’ analyzes the reason why Windows does not start and gets the specific reason, it will happen that it will fix the problem. This feature of Windows will try to repair the startup and when he does, he will tell you.
In case you didn’t know, Microsoft always recommends that your users set a password for your account and if they already have a password, they recommend that you change it from time to time.
System Restore
The second option is ‘System Restore’. What it does is bring the operating system back to a previous edition. That is, to an earlier version of the same system that does not have certain files or does not have certain programs installed. The vast majority of the time, the system restore it is most effective in resolving Windows startup problems.
It should be noted that when needed to Install an Operating System on Windows |, you must use certain programs to partition your hard disk. In case you can’t repair the startup of your computer, you have to start the system from scratch.
Diagnosis of memory problems
The last option you will find in Windows Recovery will be ‘Diagnostics for memory failures’. Such a function examines more internal memory of the computer for errors and fix freezing problems on the computer or restart problems alone.
By the way, with Windows there is a way to disable automatic system repair to do everything manually and thus learn how to repair your computer.
How do I know if Windows recovery is turned on or off?
Inside Windows, there is a way to know if Windows Recovery is active. Windows Recovery is also known as WinRE and in the next process we will show you how to know if it is active or disabled:
- Start your computer
- Go to the system search bar inside Windows
- In that bar, put the phrase ‘System symbol’
- Press the first result
- Inside the command prompt you will place the command ‘reagentc / info’ and press the ‘Enter’ key
- Finally, check the message that appears. If the message is ‘Enabled’, that means Windows Recovery is active. But if the message is ‘Disabled’ it means that Windows Recovery is disabled
That way, you know if Windows Recovery is active inside the system or if it is completely disabled.
How do I enable Windows recovery from CMD?
If inside your computer, Windows Recovery is active, perfect. But if Windows Recovery is not active, you will need to turn it on. There is no way to activate Windows Recovery from the CDM, but from the command prompt yes you can access to activate it.
Pay attention to the following process, as in it we will show you how to activate this very important program that Windows offers you:
- Start your computer
- Opens the command prompt
- Place the ‘reagentc / enable’ command
- Press ‘Enter’ and you’re done, Windows Recovery should start immediately
In case you are having problems with running Windows Recovery To repair your computer, you should go to the website Windows technical support to see how to fix the problem.
How to disable recovery within Windows?
If you are interested in disabling Windows Recovery, pay close attention to the following process that we will give you:
- Start your computer
- Go to the search bar
- Look for the command prompt and open it
- Inside it you will put the command ‘reagentc / disable’, you will press ‘Enter’ and ready, that would be all
Why doesn’t Windows recovery work properly?
Sometimes Windows Recovery does not work properly. This can happen because the system has extreme failures or because the program has not been activated. All this is solved simply by activating the Windows Recovery program as we explained before.
If that doesn’t work for you, you’ll have to move on make a backup of all the files you have to make the system from scratch to your PC. With this, Windows Recovery will work again as it should.
