Gave up on the system restore for now. But, I need my IE favourites so I imported them into Chrome and, so far, everything I tried worked better than in IE. As for Edge, man does that riggin suck. Can't resize any panes... what pain! I tried reading my local paper and it displays smaller than it did in IE. In Chrome, I get a whole screen of newspaper if I want it. IE may soon be toast, as in, uninstall and good riddance if I can't download it again and make it work for a backup.

But, sigh, the restore. My patience wears too thin to continue at the moment.