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when to bother with system restore

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dbarton

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i have all apps on c:
other drives are data drives

is there any reason to have system restore enabled on any drive other than the application drive c: ?
 
Tough to give concrete advice. I have seen it save some people's tails in a tight situation, and then I have seen it royally bork up someone else's XP install.

I create a single restore point every night, but if I ever really wanted to use it I would be sweating bullets and pretty much resigned to a 50% chance of reinstalling.
 
I have had wonderful experiences with System Restore. I have it turned on with any drive that might change and have data that matters, but I definitely decrease the size that it allocates for the bigger drives. Unless you are really crunched for room, just leave it on.
 
it depends. i use it before installing certain software. For example, i wanted to install Alcohol 120% for something and from past experience, even when you uninstall it, it doesn't remove the Autoplay handlers. so i used System Restore to backup the registry and such. it can be good just make sure to lower the allocated size cause it can take up gigabytes of space.
 

i have it enabled on the boot drive which has ALL the porgrams and windows. it has saved my ass a few times.

BUT my question is:

Is there any reasond to use it on a drive that is ONLY DATA?
As best i can tell, it only deals with *system* files, so would have no effect on a data drive other than to eat up 10% of my space
 
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