Any info on System Restore, what it does and what it doesn't?

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Ace Weston

I always disable System Restore. Never tried it. Just don't trust it enough
because I DON'T KNOW what it does to my system when restoring. I realize it
does not save my entire hard drive, just a few key files and settings. (I
use Drive Image for the entire hard drive thing). My problem is, that
restoring to a week back would most likely kill something I just installed 2
days ago. I mean there's registry settings that are written in, etc. I don't
want you to tell me how great System Restore is and I should turn it on
right away, but I would like a website link of some sort where I could read
more about it and find out what it does and doesn't do.

Thanks.
 
Did you bother looking at 'Help'? That's what it's there for!
(Understanding System Restore)
 
If you are using Drive Image regularly, you are covered. Forget system
restore!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
Richard Urban said:
If you are using Drive Image regularly, you are covered. Forget system
restore!
Click to expand...


My standard procedure for recovery is as follow:
1. Roll back to the latest System Restore Point; if that fails,
2. EUDNT, saved prior to event (with ERUNT); if that fails,
3. Restore a saved image of the whole partition (saved previousely with the
freeware DrvImagerXP).

System Restore is very quick, very save and very simple to execute, a
godsend, I would contend.

Bee.
 
Bee said:
My standard procedure for recovery is as follow:
1. Roll back to the latest System Restore Point; if that fails,
2. EUDNT, saved prior to event (with ERUNT); if that fails,
3. Restore a saved image of the whole partition (saved previousely with the
freeware DrvImagerXP).

System Restore is very quick, very save and very simple to execute, a
godsend, I would contend.
Click to expand...


Sorry, errata:ERDNT not EUDNT, and "very safe" not "very save" <g>

Bee.
 
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