Restore Points

[John Barnes]

XP was able to undo System Restores. Vista can not undo System Restores.
Anyone know why this feature would have been left out of Vista. Seems like a
step backwards. Even Windows ME could undo.

 

[Adam Albright]

XP was able to undo System Restores. Vista can not undo System Restores.
Anyone know why this feature would have been left out of Vista. Seems like a
step backwards. Even Windows ME could undo.

Go to help, type in 'remove system restore points', follow the
prompts.

 

[John Barnes]

You missed the point. When you did a System Restore with XP (or ME) you
were told not to worry because you could always undo the restore. Vista no
longer has this feature. Once you go backwards you cannot undo. I assume
you can make a new restore point just before going backwards, but if that
works, you still have to do it manually.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi John,

According to this you can undo them:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/fd0b642e-193c-4a23-9045-9faac6eb5b8b1033.mspx

Admnittedly, I have not tried it yet.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[John Barnes]

Interesting that it did not have the old comfort message about being able to
undo. Also on reboot it used to confirm again that the undo was available.
Now the message I got was that it was final, so make sure this is what you
want to do, and nothing on reboot.
Thanks for the info. I have to admit that at times I forget to uninstall a
program that is causing problems before I do a system restore, then you
can't uninstall it, except manually. Since the uninstall doesn't always
clean up the registry completely, I feel better restoring to just before the
install, where practical.

 

[Adam Albright]

You missed the point. When you did a System Restore with XP (or ME) you
were told not to worry because you could always undo the restore. Vista no
longer has this feature. Once you go backwards you cannot undo. I assume
you can make a new restore point just before going backwards, but if that
works, you still have to do it manually.

I think the point is to unclutter your hard drive from a bunch of old
restore points you won't use anymore. Of course you never really know
what point that is can be a problem. <oops>