Help lost everything?

My computer frooze to restore my son to the factory settings. Now, everything I had on my computer disappeared?

The only restore point is for today? How can I take it back to yesterday?

Unfortunately for you, 'factory settings' means what it was when you made it... the boy was a little too radical! This opens the vital need for a return to the top of your important info...

You'll have to go back... Sorry

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