System Restore for Files? (Versions Tab on file properties)

[Colin Barnhorst]

From Mark Minasi's July 2006 (#55) Newsletter

"Undelete Comes To Windows For Real!
"If you've ever used System Restore for XP, then you know how useful it can be. System Restore takes periodic snapshots of the state of your operating system and lets you roll back to before you installed the Driver From Hell or that antivirus application that seems to work by crashing your system, which is of course one way to keep you from getting malware, although not the optimal one. Now, with Vista, System Restore does the same thing for your files. Right-click any file or folder and choose Properties, and you'll see a tab named Previous Versions. That's right, versions with an "s." Decided that your version of the Great American Novel was better two days ago and you didn't back up? No worries; check out Previous Versions and just grab the version from a couple of days ago."

 

[Alan Simpson]

One small thing he didn't mention. By default it only works for C:. If you
want it to work for other drives you have to go into System Restore and add
those drives.



From Mark Minasi's July 2006 (#55) Newsletter

"Undelete Comes To Windows For Real!
"If you've ever used System Restore for XP, then you know how useful it can
be. System Restore takes periodic snapshots of the state of your operating
system and lets you roll back to before you installed the Driver From Hell
or that antivirus application that seems to work by crashing your system,
which is of course one way to keep you from getting malware, although not
the optimal one. Now, with Vista, System Restore does the same thing for
your files. Right-click any file or folder and choose Properties, and
you'll see a tab named Previous Versions. That's right, versions with an
"s." Decided that your version of the Great American Novel was better two
days ago and you didn't back up? No worries; check out Previous Versions
and just grab the version from a couple of days ago."

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Of course. Did you expect SR to work on a volume unless it is monitoring
it? I suspect Minasi gives you credit for knowing that.