Procedure «Undo system restore»

How can I perform an "undo system restore? Your published instructions are faulty, unclear and incomplete. There is no box of 'System restore Cancel' click, only the blue line, and when the user has clicked, you are taken to the "System Restore" screen, restore processes and instructions not to cancel. How can I perform an "undo system restore", I want to cancel a "System Restore", do not make another.

Hello Dave,

How to cancel a system restore is through another restore. Go back to the point just before the point that has been made in restoring the system. That makes sense for you, you undo the restore, you did?

If you need specific instructions to do this post here, but looks like you already know how? Let me know if this helps you.

Kind regards

BearPup

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