POLL: Do you use system restore?

[batmang]

just curious. i ususally turn it off on my home pc. i dont care for it, if something goes wrong to where i have to rebuild it, i just rebuild it from scratch.

 

[razibhasan]

I have competely removed System Restore by XPLite

 

[phantom404]

I always turn it off. I find that sometimes after I remove spyware or somehthing I dont want but windows restore will think the file is important so it will restore it back. Most of the times it doesnt but on some of the spyware it does so I always turn the restore feature off.

 

[corkyg]

I use it frequently. It is great for testing betas and stuff. Set a restore point before trying anything new - then if it doesn't work, do a System Restore to that point, delete the files and it doesn't exist.

A good example of this is Windows Media Player 11 (Beta). It does that automatically. And if it doesn't work right for you, it will revert back to the WMP10 or whatever on its own using System Restore.

It's a great tool - and there's no rational reason not to use it.

 

[thecrecarc]

sys restore saved my butt many times. i luv system restore!

 

[networkman]

I restore to my most recent backup, or failing that, to the Sysprep'd Ghost image I keep for each of my systems.

 

[icyxwindz]

saved me a couple of times, but sometimes its useless also.

 

[BW86]

I always turn it off.

 

[DannyLove]

Never. A lot of spyware/adware gets thrown in there, not a good idea. Unless you constantly clean your system then it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Smilin]

People that disable this are fools.



Sorry if that stings but it's true

 

[batmang]

Originally posted by: corkyg
I use it frequently. It is great for testing betas and stuff. Set a restore point before trying anything new - then if it doesn't work, do a System Restore to that point, delete the files and it doesn't exist.

A good example of this is Windows Media Player 11 (Beta). It does that automatically. And if it doesn't work right for you, it will revert back to the WMP10 or whatever on its own using System Restore.

It's a great tool - and there's no rational reason not to use it.

hey corky, i live in tucson as well.

 

[xtknight]

Disabled whenever I'm using XP. Never had to use it in my life, probably never will. I keep backups of my important stuff. Reinstalling generally doesn't bother me, so as far as I'm concerned, it's a waste of space.

 

[porcorosso]

I have nothing against System Restore when it's used for immediate reversal of an installation that can't seem to correct or undo itself. And, under the right circumstances, it can be useful for getting a farkled system back up and running. But it disturbs me when I see someone use it to go "time traveling" back to earlier system states on an important workstation, or even a home system on which valuable information is stored. Certainly, it may get the system up and running again, and that's cool when you need to keep using it. However, if you've used System Restore to do more than just reverse the most recent changes made to a system, I think you're potentially leaving the system with an undefined security status. And Windows / Microsoft Update doesn't always (ever?) seem to realize that you've invalidated some of the security updates by using it.

If I had to use System Restore to regain use of an important system on a temporary basis, I'd do it. But I'd be doing a clean installation on that system as soon as possible -- unless, as I said before, the utility had only been used to go one or a couple of images back. If I went back past the last time any critical updates had been applied I'd want the system totally reconfigured from scratch.

I do have it enabled on all of my WinXP systems. Why not? It's very sparing of CPU time, and hard drives are large, fast, and cheap these days. No reason to turn it off, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Rottie]

system restore does not work for me I tried that before. Disable it anyway I use Arconic True Image to back it up.

 

[CP5670]

I always have it turned off.

 

[secretanchitman]

off for me.

 

[nova2]

generally wouldn't bother with system restore if the machine is an important production box.

definitely prefer imaging the OS partition. (especially if the sysop was smart, meaning, didn't make the OS partition the only partition, thus making it huge and more of a pain to image)

 

[Navid]

After I install XP, I disable system restore. I create an image of my XP partition. If I need to restore, I just restore the image, which takes only 2 minutes for me and is guaranteed to be free of spyware.

 

[ronach]

Sys Restore is a very useful tool if used correctly, there are as has been previously stated, other ways to restore your sys to a known good config. We have choices..and that is a good thing.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

No because it's useless. But I can't vote both, so just "no"

- M4H

 

[clamum]

No. Just another running service that I have never had the need for and have had no problems without it.

 

[juiio]

It is not useless, it is just useless for me.

 

[TheRyuu]

People here should be smart enoughto prevent junk from getting on their computer so they SHOULDN'T need system restore.

Plus it's garbage. It still won't get rid of virus's. System restore is "Safe Mode" for dummies.

 

[jadinolf]

It is not useless to me and I establish a restore point every Sunday morning.

 

[JBT]

no