How can a restore point be tested to see if its good?

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Windows File Protection ( System File Checker ) would handle that
situation automatically.
 
W98 has a system file checker but scanreg for testing the registry.
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b11_ said:
How can a restore point be tested to see if its good?
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It cannot - that I know of. Thus my recommendation that people *not* depend
on System Restore. That they actual use it like another manual tool - but
leaving it on as an "extra cushion" in case you forget to do something
else - and it might save your butt..
 
It cannot - that I know of. Thus my recommendation that people *not* depend
on System Restore. That they actual use it like another manual tool - but
leaving it on as an "extra cushion" in case you forget to do something
else - and it might save your butt..
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This makes sense. But saying that, I've used it hundreds of times,
and the only time it failed was because of something I did which
was out side of the normal situation.

I've got a dual boot system. (both XP)
sys "A" is fat32, and sys "B" is ntfs.
I've got SR setup on each system to only monitor
their own SYSTEM drive.

I had deleted a monitored file on "A" and it
currently resided in the recycle bin.

I then booted system "B" and emptied the bin,
which ended up emptying out the file belonging to
sys "A"

Later an attempt to restore system A to an earlier time
failed because of that missing file. I found that out thru
SRDIAG. As I said, this is the *only* time SR has ever failed
me, and the failure was self- inflicted, as you can see.

Generally though to answer the question about whether an
earlier restore point is good, just do a restore to it. It is safe
and can be completely undone.
Dave
 
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