SR was bad in XP. If you did a restore, within a month you would be getting
increasing errors. By 2 months, you formatted!!
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"ICQM Houston" wrote:

you're correct - that's what i do now instead of fooling around with system
restore that gives always headache

"oufan199" wrote:

I couldn't agree more. I've never had system restore do anything substantial
for me. I often debate whether I should even leave it turned on. Probably
not. If I ever had anything major go wrong, I would be better off doing a
reformat anyway.

"ICQM Houston" wrote in message
...
how to disable system restore in windows vista 32?
this system restore is useless. when i do system restore, the computer
got even worst and it becomes a painful and frustrating experience -\
it is totally useless

"ICQM Houston" wrote in message
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how can it be a virtual life-saver if one gets nothinbg but headaches and
frustrations. even Bill do not have solutions for the SR problems.


You've ranted a lot about how bad SR is and said that there are problems,
but you neglected to mention any of the problems?
--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

In message ICQM
Houston wrote:

how can it be a virtual life-saver if one gets nothinbg but headaches and
frustrations. even Bill do not have solutions for the SR problems.

It can be a virtual life-saver because it does solve certain problems
very consistently.

What problem were you trying to solve? What went wrong?

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:24:01 -0700, ICQM Houston
wrote:

XP or Vista - the SR is a useless program - it's makes the system even worst



Not at all true. It's gotten me, and several others I know, out of
serious trouble several times.

Does it have weaknesses? Sure. Could it be better? Sure. But that's
far from saying it's useless.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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System restore has not worked for me either. Just says it is "unsuccessful".
Does anyone know how to get it working because I would like to use it in
some cases. And can someone also chime in on how you "reformat"?
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no sig. thank you


"DevilsPGD" wrote:

In message ICQM
Houston wrote:

how can it be a virtual life-saver if one gets nothinbg but headaches and
frustrations. even Bill do not have solutions for the SR problems.

It can be a virtual life-saver because it does solve certain problems
very consistently.

What problem were you trying to solve? What went wrong?

What firewall, anti-virus application or security suite is installed? There
are some that cause problems which do not appear immediately.
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"rose" wrote in message
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System restore has not worked for me either. Just says it is
"unsuccessful".
Does anyone know how to get it working because I would like to use it in
some cases. And can someone also chime in on how you "reformat"?
--
no sig. thank you


"DevilsPGD" wrote:

In message ICQM
Houston wrote:

how can it be a virtual life-saver if one gets nothinbg but headaches
and
frustrations. even Bill do not have solutions for the SR problems.

It can be a virtual life-saver because it does solve certain problems
very consistently.

What problem were you trying to solve? What went wrong?

There's an easy remedy. Instead of complaining about SR then just
disable it. If it works for you then there's no problem. I myself like
SR because everytime I load a program it makes a restore point and it's
much easier to retrace my steps rather than formatting and reloading
everything back. Agree sometimes SR doesn't totally revert back to what
it was before but I rather try everything before the dreaded reformat
and load!


--
kanehi