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Can I use System Restore to reinstall deleted or uninstalled applications?

April 26, 2017applications deleted reinstall restore system uninstalled

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Can I use System Restore to reinstall deleted or uninstalled applications?

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For the most part, NO. System Restore will not restore uninstalled applications. It was not designed to do so. System Restore monitors a core set of system files and most of the registry. In a typical application installation there are file types that System Restore does not monitor, and therefore will not restore. This would cause the application to fail to run. An exception to this would be if an application consisted of only monitored file types. Such as just an EXE file.