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(Continued from page 8) software-download/windows10). Previous ver-
After restoring to a date prior to a Windows sions of Windows required entering a code to
update or a software installation, it may be activate. However, once Windows 10 has been
necessary to reinstall the update or software. installed and activated, you don’t need to enter
a code when reinstalling Windows 10 on that
If you suspect you have a virus on your com- computer. When restoring from a backup that
puter, and don’t know whether any of the im- may contain infected files, don’t restore exe-
ages/backups contain the virus, it is probably cutable files (.exe) as they are more likely to
best to use the Windows recovery drive to contain viruses.
reinstall Windows and then manually restore
personal files. If you don’t have a recovery With the recovery drive and good backups,
drive, but have access to another computer, you will be prepared when a problem occurs.
you can create recovery media for Windows
10. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/

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