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Do you find Windows System Restore utility to be useful?
- Very useful, it's saved me many times. (Why so many times?)
- Somewhat useful. (How so?)
- Not useful. (Tell us why.)
- I use other system restore utilities (Tell us what you use.
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photo editing and other windows functions will benefit from having a 64 bit OS?
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