Wow, system restore actually did something useful

[KingNothing]

So I've had my computer on for a good 3 days now (normally turn it off at night) and I turned it off last night. When I turn it on this morning, only the monitor attached to my PCI card turned on. It wasn't the video cards because when I flipped the setting in the BIOS for Primary Video Controller from Auto (read, PCI) to AGP, the monitor attached to the AGP card came on. So I fiddled with IRQs, reinstalled drivers, etc, and nothing worked. Only thing Windows would tell me was that one of my video cards wouldn't start. My BIOS knew that both cards were there.

Did a system restore to last Friday and poof, everything works.

Still don't know what fubared my system, the only software I've installed between now and Friday without a reboot is Coolmon and Foobar 2000. Coolmon I uninstalled before the system restore with no effect, didn't think to uninstall Foobar 2000. *shrug*

 

[Mr N8]

Haxored!!!!

Actually, I've found in fixing PCs that I love XP, because people bring them into my shop with similar problems, and I get to simply set it back to a restore point. Quick and easy!

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: MogulMonster
Haxored!!!!

Actually, I've found in fixing PCs that I love XP, because people bring them into my shop with similar problems, and I get to simply set it back to a restore point. Quick and easy!

Does Win2K's system restore work as well? Never had occasion to use it but I'm actively considering moving back to 2K.

Oh, and I hoped I wasn't hacked, because I gave the good folks of ATOT access to my FTP for Super Bowl commercials. Way to bite the hand that feeds you, ATOT.

 

[nord1899]

Originally posted by: KingNothing

Originally posted by: MogulMonster
Haxored!!!!

Actually, I've found in fixing PCs that I love XP, because people bring them into my shop with similar problems, and I get to simply set it back to a restore point. Quick and easy!

Does Win2K's system restore work as well? Never had occasion to use it but I'm actively considering moving back to 2K.

Win2k has system restore? I've never heard of it.

And I love WinXP's system restore. Set a restore point. Install new drivers. If they fubar stuff, just restore it.

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: nord1899

Originally posted by: KingNothing

Originally posted by: MogulMonster
Haxored!!!!

Actually, I've found in fixing PCs that I love XP, because people bring them into my shop with similar problems, and I get to simply set it back to a restore point. Quick and easy!

Does Win2K's system restore work as well? Never had occasion to use it but I'm actively considering moving back to 2K.

Win2k has system restore? I've never heard of it.

And I love WinXP's system restore. Set a restore point. Install new drivers. If they fubar stuff, just restore it.

Well I'll be darned, I thought Win2K had system restore. Just booted up my laptop and...nope. Not that I've ever needed in Win2K.

 

[Evadman]

WinME has it!

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: Evadman
WinME has it!

That's probably what I was thinking of, then. Not that I'll ever use that red-headed stepchild of an OS. Came preinstalled on my laptop, crashed the first day I used it. Came preinstalled on an IBM 1Ghz machine, crashed the third day I used it. Are we seeing a pattern here?

 

[Mr N8]

Originally posted by: Evadman
WinME has it!

Use Daily to prevent total system failure!

 

[yoda291]

I know you can roll back the registry to a restore point in 2k. Is this what we're talking about or are we talking about driver rollback.

 

[nord1899]

A full system rollback which would include any drivers, software and registry changes.

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: nord1899
A full system rollback which would include any drivers, software and registry changes.

Which is infinitely more useful than a simple registry rollback. So if I do go back to Win2K, is there any third party software out there that does as good a job as WinXP's System Restore? Other than a nightly backup, which would erase any files you had created and is a lot more work to set up and use.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: KingNothing

Still don't know what fubared my system, the only software I've installed between now and Friday without a reboot is Coolmon and Foobar 2000.

hahaha
foobar 2000 does it's magic

 

[Spac3d]

Originally posted by: KingNothing

Originally posted by: Evadman
WinME has it!

That's probably what I was thinking of, then. Not that I'll ever use that red-headed stepchild of an OS. Came preinstalled on my laptop, crashed the first day I used it. Came preinstalled on an IBM 1Ghz machine, crashed the third day I used it. Are we seeing a pattern here?

User error?

Millions of people use that OS just fine, but when you touch it, it crashes.

Spac3d

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: Spac3d

Originally posted by: KingNothing

Originally posted by: Evadman
WinME has it!

That's probably what I was thinking of, then. Not that I'll ever use that red-headed stepchild of an OS. Came preinstalled on my laptop, crashed the first day I used it. Came preinstalled on an IBM 1Ghz machine, crashed the third day I used it. Are we seeing a pattern here?

User error?

Millions of people use that OS just fine, but when you touch it, it crashes.

Spac3d

Yeah, I figured someone would feel the need to say that. All I did the first few days was install software that millions of people use. Which I used successfully on 2K and XP.

 

[rh71]

System Restore made my system even worse the last time I used it. I couldn't log in with my normal user profile and had to use the Administrator account. Normal log-in account was unrecoverable (original problem causing a need for restore wasn't even related to this). That sucked.

 

[NokiaDude]

Yeah, M$ totally revamped the System Restore so that it actually restores your computer to a WORKING state.