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SupportAssist for Home PCs User’s Guide

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Configure system repair settings

Prerequisites

SupportAssist OS Recovery 5.1 or later must be available on your PC.

About this task

Configuring system repair settings enables SupportAssist to back up important system files and use them to restore your PC to a previous working state when your PC encounters issues such as running slowly, crashing, or having audio or video issues.
NOTE:If the amount of free hard drive space available on your PC is less than 12 GB, new system repair backups are not created.

Steps

  1. Open SupportAssist and click Settings.
  2. In the System Repair card, click Open.
  3. To enable SupportAssist to back up your files, ensure that the System Repair is enabled option is selected.
  4. Select the amount of hard drive space that you want to allocate for storing system repair snapshots, for example, 15 GB.
    NOTE:If you disable the system repair option, backups created before are removed and any hard drive space that was used is freed up.

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