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| Thread ID: 97312 | 2009-02-11 19:23:00 | How does System Restore really work? | tuiruru (12277) | Press F1 |
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| 746949 | 2009-02-11 19:23:00 | When I've got a few new programs I want to try out I always create a restore point before installing them.. Generally speaking I try to curb my enthusiasm, install the first one, muck around with it for a couple of days to see if there are any issues and then move on to the next one. I was wondering, however, what happens if I install three or four programs one after the other (with a restore point in between each one). I'm using Vista Home Premium SP 1 and I know if I install a prog and then go to Sys Rest again it gives me the option of uninstalling it which presumably sets things back the way they were. But, if I install progs A, B, C and D and then decide to go back and reverse the install point that I created before installing Prog A, will that stuff up all the settings for progs B, C and D?. Also, if I decide that prog B is creating a problem should I roll back the restore points for progs C and D first? Thanks |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 746950 | 2009-02-11 19:50:00 | if I install progs A, B, C and D and then decide to go back and reverse the install point that I created before installing Prog A, will that stuff up all the settings for progs B, C and D?. Yes. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 746951 | 2009-02-12 00:16:00 | I don't have much faith in system restore myself, when I muck up windows I do it properly and system restore has never helped me. A better Idea is to turn it off and store an image of the OS partiton on a seperate drive, porgrams like acronis let you do incremental or differential backups meaning you don't have to create a whole new image everytime you want to back up your system. :2cents: |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 746952 | 2009-02-12 01:30:00 | Also, if I decide that prog B is creating a problem should I roll back the restore points for progs C and D first? You don't need to. When you turn back the time to before you installed Program B, System Restore would wipe out the program data for Program C and Program D as well. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 746953 | 2009-02-12 03:08:00 | System Restore is basically a snapshot of your system at a certain point in time, so if you install Program A and B, then restore to (say) a week ago, then Program A, B, and whatever else was put on there in between (except the [My] Documents folder) will disappear as well. :) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 746954 | 2009-02-12 08:25:00 | Yup. Acronis is awsome. I've never lost my PC because of backing up to image with Acronis. | supersi (8401) | ||
| 746955 | 2009-02-12 08:52:00 | The standard vista system restore worked for me when I needed it, I didn't know there were any issues with it | Ofthesea (14129) | ||
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