System Restore

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The purpose of System Restore is to (hopefully) allow you to regain
access to the Windows GUI and use Windows' built-in tools, like Add or
Remove Programs or driver rollbacks, or your third-party tools, like
anti-malware software.

Otherwise, you would have to work from the command line (with the
Recovery console, for example) or with boot CDs supplied with your third
party software. This is beyond the technical experience of most people.

The problem is that 'System Restore' sounds too much like a magic button
you press to bail out of trouble, and IMO Microsoft has not done a real
good job of explaining it.

Moreover, and as with many of Windows' utilities (like Microsoft Backup,
Compressed Files, CD Burning, etc.), System Restore provides an
essential level of functionality for users who otherwise would have no
solution on their own. Once you know about disk imaging, System restore
becomes much less important.
 
Leonard

Until Bert Kinney created his website the advice was poor. Bert's
website came years after System Restore was introduced in Windows ME.
Obvious bugs have never been fixed by Microsoft. Norton. Zone Alarm etc
have been written software without any consideration as to the way they
might work with System Restore. Nothwithstanding it can provide a
lifeline.

You are right about Disk Imaging. It avoids the problems caused by many
security programmes.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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Hi Gerry:

I'm not hung up on the word 'lifeline'. That can mean anything. I've
often called the built-in Administrator account a lifeline.

If more people understood what System Restore is, and is not, we would
all be better off. If more people knew how to backup, we would be
enormously better off!
 
Hi Gerry:

I'm not hung up on the word 'lifeline'. That can mean anything. I've
often called the built-in Administrator account a lifeline.

If more people understood what System Restore is, and is not, we would
all be better off. If more people knew how to backup, we would be
enormously better off!
Click to expand...

At any given time, my most recent backup (I usually have a dozen to
choose from) is less than 24 hours old.

It's faster to use System Restore in cases where something has become
only slightly scrambled.

DDW
 
Leonard

Agreed.

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Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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