How do you restore a PC to a previous date?

Question

My home PC has, for some reason, restarted itself, and now isn't letting me sign in. After turning on, it goes straight to the "select account" screen. Now, I only have one account set up, so usually it just starts into that account. After I click on the account, it begins to load, and then moves to my desktop background image, but no shortcuts. It goes there for almost a second, and then heads back to the account select screen, saying that that its logging out..

I've been thinking that I can just reset it back to a previous date, like a week ago (I've had this done before, by a technically savvy friend of mine) it should be fine.. but I don't know how to do that...

Help :(

Answer 1

In your kind of System, Its much better if you do a clean install ( if you have an Installation Disk ) instead of doing a System Restore to have a clean System.

Answer 2

Goto -> all programs -> accessories -> system tools -> system restore.