Subhuman says: In Win XP Turn off System Restore on all disk

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 12:04 pm

Is it really a good idea? It’s a way to save yourself from a disaster, which is the advantage of it?

Post by **garyb** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 12:06 pm

yeah,but it uses resources and is intrusive.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 12:19 pm

Right, so I guess what this can do, an image program like Norton Ghost can too... Am I right?

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 12:35 pm

This is exactly what I intend to do... (no restore and back-up with Ghost).

Until now I've just been burning CDs every month - the advantage of this method is that it motivates you to delete useless clutter.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 2:00 pm

NEstor, you can leave it on during installation, and turn it off once runs smooth.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 7:11 pm

Good idea atOmic!

arela · Post by **arela** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 3:17 am

...or enable system restore every time
you want a new restore point (1-2 month)

for now...a beach boy

SL1200MK4 · Post by **SL1200MK4** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 11:50 am

I don't think you will "notice" any performance decrease even with the system restore turn on.

I will sugguest alter the size on the HD reserved for the restore data. And always ghost... System restore is not a subsitute to a full backup.

But system restore will not likely to do anything crazy when you are working with cubase and stuff. If you do care, I had say just turn up the priority of Cubase or whatever you are running. That will make more sense...

Astral Fridge Magnet · Fri Jul 18, 2003 4:19 pm

Hi Nestor,
Maybe I can help you out for a change. I find system restore in XP is actually rubbish and doesn't actually restore that well. For example I have installed a program decided I didn't like or want it, did a system restore within XP , yet the program folder was still there.
I think using something like Ghost is far more reliable and truly does restore your system to the way it was when you created the image. XP doesn't.
That's my opinion for what it is worth.

Regards

Weirdo The Weird

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 2:54 am

AFAIK System Restore is only 'system' restore: that is, system files and registry. It would be scary if it deleted program and data files from my computer

EDIT: yep, what I thought, here are some facts : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treevi ... SysRst.asp
And some more info http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... estore.asp

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