System Restore

[scott]

Will System restore in windows xp restore MS Word
Docs........................??? PLease Help..

 

[Willit]

No

Restore is not reliable. It's a marketing gimmick for MS.
You can turn it off from Control Panel > System > and then
re-boot and it will purge it's file. Then re-boot, turn it
back on.
You still have to deal the problem, it's a crap program,
that half works, half the time.

Do a real backup and get Erunt for your registry. It puts
a folder on your root dir with a installer.

http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/

System Restore In MS's own words .......lol


"The System Restore feature of Windows XP enables you to
restore a PC, in the event of a problem, to a previous
state without losing personal data files. System Restore
actively monitors system file changes to record or store
previous versions before the changes occurred. With System
Restore, you never have to think about taking system
snapshots as it automatically creates easily identifiable
restore points, which allow you to restore the system to a
previous point in time."


"you never have to think about taking system snapshots"
Oh, really.

 

[andre]

no system restore won't recover any documents.
system restore never effects anything else then
installation or system settings changes. only way you can
recover your documents is by contacting some data recovery
company e.g. drive savers but contact them only if they
are realllyyyyyy important because these guys charge
heavily.


Andre

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Will System restore in windows xp restore MS Word
Docs........................??? PLease Help..

No, it won't. It's meant to restore the system, not application
files you create.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

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.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Will System restore in windows xp restore MS Word
Docs..................

No - it explicitly does *not* cover user files and documents, because
quite a lot of what it does do is delete things, so as to put the
*system* back exactly as it was. And deleting documents, or going back
to the revision made two weeks back, would not be good news