Of course Windows doesn't know anything about Chrome bookmarks. Personally, I had never paid any attention to the feature at all other than initially configuring System Restore on a new computer (shown below). The user files backup is totally transparent. Restore Points in Windows 7 backup both system files and user files. Things looked bleak until I ran across a video from February 2014 called ' How to recover bookmarks in Google Chrome' by YouTube user GRkostas10611. The key idea in the video was not to deal with Chrome but to deal with Windows. No doubt, if the backup bookmark file had my bookmarks it would have been larger than the original file. Swapping these files may help in some instances, but in my case, both files were the same size, had the same very recent timestamp and were very small. Many online suggestions for recovering Chrome bookmarks on Windows involve files called 'Bookmarks' and 'Bookmarks.bak'. Even without Google/Chrome backups, I was able to recover the bookmarks thanks to a suggestion I found on YouTube. The good news is that, at least on Windows 7, all may not be lost. This carelessness wiped out my carefully curated bookmarks, which had never been backed up. I recently responded to a prompt from the Chrome browser (on Windows 7) without fully understanding the question.
