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Community weekly poll: How useful do you find the Windows System Restore utility?
- 5/25/05 2:07 PM
System Restore is okay
by metmichallica - 6/7/05 10:21 AM In reply to: How useful do you find the Windows System Restore utility? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've used it a couple times, one time it would not work and another time it would have came in handy, but I couldn't use it. The computer asked for the recovery disk. I find it useful sometimes, but I am not trusting this computer to Systems Restore.
I bought Norton Ghost and for the most part I feel more comfortable running the computer now that I have some backup on hand. I know if a file gets corrupted or gets deleted I can just look to that disk and I am saved.
The only bad feature I can think of is when I do back ups it's to cdrs, being I only have a cdrw drive and not a dvd burner. This process requires many disks, last backup I used 16 cdrs just to make one image, but overall I like the program and I'm glad I have some way to restore the computer back to a healthy state if a problem does arise.
I've had no problems with Norton Ghost yet.
How useful do you find the Windows System Restore utility?
by Arthur Billy - 9/16/05 7:49 PM In reply to: How useful do you find the Windows System Restore utility? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Useless
System Restore Facility
by nomadd74 - 9/20/05 8:53 PM In reply to: How useful do you find the Windows System Restore utility? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I find Windows system restore excellent. The way I make very good use of the facility is as follows.
Every 12 months I carry out a Reformat of my XP, immediately I create a restore point on my computer, apart from the automatic restore point I make a habit of creating my own restore points and always return to my original restore point after my reformat. In this way my registry does not get clogged up. The only time I allow a different restore point is when I delete or instal a new program.
Through adopting this method, my computer hums along at all times. No complaints of slowing down. What else can I say!
Nomadd74 Australia
Why is there not a Printer Friendly option to print
by Arthur Billy - 3/3/06 1:40 PM In reply to: How useful do you find the Windows System Restore utility? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It irks me no end when I want to print out an interesting article, forum advice etc. I Always get parts of the right side of the document cut off.
It would be very much appreciated if you include a Printer friendly option or wahtever you want to call it option so that when I print I do not get documents with part of the right side cut off.
Nowhere could I find an e-mail address or a person that I could write this to. That would also be apreciated.
Hoepfully you can get this mesage to a Chief Editor or whosoever makes this decision.
With best regards,
Arthur F. BIlly
abuhtb@aol.com
Phone & Fax: 925-934-3902
Katherine . R Question re Undeleting Files or Folders
by Arthur Billy - 9/1/06 8:40 AM In reply to: How useful do you find the Windows System Restore utility? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
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A dead loss
by Baillero - 10/19/09 12:50 PM In reply to: How useful do you find the Windows System Restore utility? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I doubt I need to enter model numbers, etc. because my problem seems more to do with windows XP than with System Restore, Over around 8 years or more and through 3 new PCs with Windows XP pre-installed, including this present model - Windows XP Professional, I have only ever found it to sometime work on a restore point for the same day. Any further back - forget it. Just recently it wont work at all. With previous versions of Windows (2005, 2008 and Millennium - I now forget the exact names/numbers) I had Symantec's GoBack that worked like a dream and could restore single files or folders as necessary. But wadya know? GoBack, although it is or was supposed to be compatible with windows XP, and although it installs without bother also will not work with Windows XP. After installing and enabling it with a restart a message appears a little way into the restart saying "Your NTLDR File is missing - - - - - etc." The rest is a long story that I have seen many times on different forums but as far as I can tell nobody has yet found a successful solution to either of those problems. As a result I ended up reinstalling Windows XP 31 times during the time I had my previous XP model. Microsoft don't wish to know because of the apparent 'stigma' attached to OEM. Well, you did ask, so are there any workable ideas out there?
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