System Restore

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Joe Leandri

Why doesn't Accessories > System Tools > SYSTEM RESTORE ever work in windows
Vista Home Basic?
 
I've used it successfully a few times now with Home Basic.
I have Verizon FiOS and tried to run their 'PC Check ' program. It crashed
on install and wouldn't uninstall. Kept causing a system error on boot.
System Restore was the fix. Sad that Verizon does not have a check for
incompatible OS to run their tools. (the verizon setup tool run from a thumb
drive would not run on my Vista machine at all - incompatible OS so I had to
configure the system all manually.

Location is as you described it. When you run it, will ask you if you want
to create a restore point or restore to an earlier point. Certain things
will NOT undo - not sure what types, just found to be so. One XP machine had
spyware that could not be removed with restore. I wound up looking up the
registry keys that were affected and manually removing them.

Oppie
 
I feel this is an area that has been greatly improved upon with Vista.
Never have had a failed restore and love the way it keeps records of when &
what you installed so you
can suss out the perfect day to revert to.

So kudos to Microsoft for making it easier to revert back to paradise when a
nightmare occurs. :-)
 
FWIW, on my Home Premium box, on clicking SR, the permission box comes up
immediately, then it takes minutes (seems like hours) before SR kicks in.
HDD chunters away all this time (searching for SR points?). Once there SR is
ok.

Is this your experience? If so be patient.

--

Delboy

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams
 
Delboy said:
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

I didn't remember Adams being the originator of that bit. I often use a
version of it in engineering design...
You can make a device fool-proof but you can't make it idiot-proof since
idiots are so darn ingenious.
Oppie
 
I have had an opposite experience when, following a blue stop screen, a
system restore resulted in a message like "Your registry is corrupt" and,
after several retries, the situation progressively deteriorated till I had
to re-install Vista. Can't remember anything similar with XP. That was two
weeks ago - seems stable now, but I feel loath to tangle with Restore Points
again. Doug
 
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