Why does MS torment us with system restore

[Dave]

Just a Bunch of sheep. Except Willit, and at least one other. Thank you
for your useful info to my original post. If something is unreliable it is
worthless. Actually it is worse than worthless for the frustration it
causes when it malfunctions . would be better without it all together. But
then many people will settle for crap.

 

[Frank]

Oh! Now we will hear from the cut and paste crowd.

: In : Willit <[email protected]> typed:
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: > Restore is not reliable. It's a marketing gimmick for MS.
:
:
: System Restore is not a cure for all problems, and is certainly
: not a substitute for a backup. But it is far more than "a
: marketing Gimmick for MS." It is a very useful feature, one that
: has gotten me and many others out of trouble many times.
:
: --
: Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
: Please reply to the newsgroup
:

 

[Frank]

: In article <[email protected]>,
: (e-mail address removed) says...
: |Sounds like a Gimmick to me.
: |
: |System Restore :: In MS's own words .......lol

:
: Whats gimmicky or funny about that? It's certainly worked for me,
: several times.

It has never worked for me. I was forced to buy DI 7. In the
previous DOS based windows I could copy HD to HD every
Friday. It would cost me about 10 to 15 mins.

 

[rifleman]

|Just a Bunch of sheep. Except Willit, and at least one other. Thank you
|for your useful info to my original post. If something is unreliable it is
|worthless. Actually it is worse than worthless for the frustration it
|causes when it malfunctions . would be better without it all together. But
|then many people will settle for crap.
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|
|
Well you should know about crap, shitface. Sheep I AM NOT. If you want
to have a slanging match then head over to alt.os.windows-xp, where you
will get your just deserts.

 

[rifleman]

|Just a Bunch of sheep. Except Willit, and at least one other. Thank you
|for your useful info to my original post. If something is unreliable it is
|worthless. Actually it is worse than worthless for the frustration it
|causes when it malfunctions . would be better without it all together. But
|then many people will settle for crap.
|
|
|
System Restore is NOT UNRELIABLE. You just have to know what it does and
what it doesn't do. Don't listen to the ****tard "willit" he hasn't got
a clue.

 

[rifleman]

|
||: In article <[email protected]>,
|: (e-mail address removed) says...
|: |Sounds like a Gimmick to me.
|: |
|: |System Restore :: In MS's own words .......lol
|
|:
|: Whats gimmicky or funny about that? It's certainly worked for me,
|: several times.
|
|It has never worked for me. I was forced to buy DI 7. In the
|previous DOS based windows I could copy HD to HD every
|Friday. It would cost me about 10 to 15 mins.
|
|
|
Well I think you must be in a TINY minority then. is the rest of your
system OK? All patched up? There is NO reason why it should not work as
intended.

 

[Mike Kolitz]

Of course System Restore isn't a replacement for backups.
It's common sense - don't store backups on the same media as the original
files. Since System Restore uses your hard drive to store it's restoration
data, don't count on using it if you suffer from a hard drive crash.

That doesn't mean that System Restore isn't a valuable tool - it means that
it shouldn't be the only tool you use.

Just for the record - I've never had a problem with System Restore, either.

--
Mike Kolitz MCSE 2000
MS-MVP - Windows Setup and Deployment

Remember to check Windows Update often,
and apply the patches marked as Critical!
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

 

[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

Well I think you must be in a TINY minority then. is the rest of your
system OK? All patched up? There is NO reason why it should not work
as intended.

Oh, except bad patches, other software, you farted the wrong way at your
computer . . . . Don't you read this group? There is NO reason why any
of these people should be having problems, but they do! And System
Restore is not something to depend on, it's more like a last resort,
when you got nothing to lose by trying it anyway. MS makes it seem on
those links I gave earlier, like SR is the holy grail of protecting XP
while saving your data. Baloney! Backup! Backup! Backup! And then
you can use SR with some peace of mind, because if it screws up, and it
has for a lot of people, you've got your ass protected.

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[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

System Restore is NOT UNRELIABLE. You just have to know what it does
and what it doesn't do. Don't listen to the ****tard "willit" he
hasn't got
a clue.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Just because you shout that it's "NOT UNRELIABLE,"
doesn't make it so.

You'd have to buy all the vowels, to even get a glimmer of a hint.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

I can say that System Restore has performed exactly as advertised
the two times I've needed to use it, once for a network configuration
problem of my own creation, and once when a hardware problem caused
some registry corruption.

Bruce Chambers

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[Guest]

I support computers for a living and I will say that it works much more often than it fails. I don't use it unless its a problem that I can not resolve through any other troubleshooting. When I do run into such a scenerio, System Restore is very helpful. If you bunch of winers want something to complain about, complain that the recovery console isn't installed by default or that XP doesn't include a DOS based system restore tool..

Happy holidays to the ENTIRE MS team!