When you disable system restore in xp, does it still make registry backups on each daily bootup?

[McMadman]

I'd think the question in title is fairly obvious. I've found that the daily (or every unique day you boot the computer) registry backups make restoring a functional system much easier, but is system restore really necessary for this?

 

[Tbirdkid]

Honestly, I would never disable system restore....

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: Tbirdkid
Honestly, I would never disable system restore....

Same here, it's a life saver. Plus I dont think it makes that much of a performance difference.\

-Por

 

[McMadman]

I'm not running xp myself, although I plan to put it on my second rig, however a friend of mine has been constantly complaining about it being "slow" and I know that system restore does have a bit more overhead.

However ntfsdos pro has been used a couple of times to restore a working good registry from the system volume information\_restore dir, and this is the big thing that is really useful, as it will create at least 30 registry backups.

One of these days I need to clear one of my partitions and slap xp pro on, granted those that know me, know I've been saying this forever. 🙂

 

[pelikan]

Disabling system restore stops xp from making registry backups. It also frees up some memory. I keep restore disabled, along with many other services that I don't want or need, to optimize my sytem for gaming.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: McMadman
I'm not running xp myself, although I plan to put it on my second rig, however a friend of mine has been constantly complaining about it being "slow" and I know that system restore does have a bit more overhead.

It's only supposed to slow down installs.

 

[corkyg]

Disabling System Restore does stop automatic registry backup. You can still do it manually. But, System Restore has saved a lot of bacon and is best left enabled. Don't forget, you can also limit it.

 

[McMadman]

I figured I'd ask, the automatic registry backup has been quite handy, and even if it's the only real "used" feature of system restore, it's probably best to simply leave it.

Now as far as updates go, in the 2 main cases I remember, it took anywhere from 10 minutes to 3 hours to do various windows updates.

 

[NogginBoink]

So schedule a daily ntbackup of your system state.

When you do a system state backup, a copy of the registry is backed up to c:\windows\repair\regback.