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XP Restore saved me.

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I know that some people recommend turning off the Restore function of XP. I have it turned off on my home machine because I Ghost on occasion. However, on my Internet server at work, I have it turned on. I downloaded a Internet update today and my Internet started doing wierd things, like maybe a virus. Anyhow, after some attempts to fix it, I resorted to yesterday's system restore point. It worked perfectly and I was good as new in less than three minutes. So, since it worked so good, I installed SP1, which worked fine, by the way.

The moral of this story is to seriously consider keeping System Restore turned on and don't forget to use it.
 
Amen to that!

hard to say how many times I fubar'd my setup with silly experiments. I ghost once a week or so, and have had to resort to the back up more than once, but on MANY occasions, system restore put me back in minutes with nearly zero effort...........

perfect? no. But a seriously helpful step in the right direction? YOU BET!
 
I screwed up XP and then tried a system restore from about a month ago. It didn't fix anything. I eventually fixed the error on my own but realised I was sitting with a really old configuration. So I restored back to a newer point and it brought the problem back. So I have mixed feelings towards XP's System Restore...
 
I've never used the "system restore" as you've described. However, on the installation CD, there is an option for an installation recovery. I have had to use this once before in the past and it resolved the driver issues with my previous installation that was causing me some problems.
 
Sometimes it works well, sometimes it doesn't work well. But if you need it, its good to have around 🙂 That's why I don't turn it off. You never know.
 
Four days ago, the power supply on my computer "died" I replaced the power supply but now the computer would not shut down. when I shut down the computer, it would go through the process and then reboot. How do I go about restoring it to the way it was? TIA
 
Start => Control Panel => Performance and Maintenance => System Restore => restore my computer to an earlier time

Then select a restore point from a day on the calander that is before you had problems.

System Restore doesn't always work, but it is always worth a try


*edit* You can also get to System Restore by the following:

Start => All Programs => Accessories => System Tools => System Restore
 
Insidious,

thanks for the info. my problem, however, is not getting to xp restore, but getting xp to let me set the date to restore to, i.e. xp restore would not let me restore to the way it was say on 9/20/02. Xp restore would not let me change the date. any suggestion? tia



I think i figured it out. gonna try it to see if it works. thanks
 
When you restore, you have to pick from the restore points that are available. You can't change times or dates after the fact. The calander will have the days in which a restore point was set shown in bold.

you can click around on the calander and see what is available then pick one of those. For future points, if there is a particular time you want to record, you have to create the restore point which will be set for the day and time it was created. (ie: you can't set a point today that restores to some time yesterday)

not sure if I said this well or not. Good Luck.
 
anybody know how to PERMANTLY save a restore point? XP deletes them after some time frame, and it seems when you really want a certain date, its gone.
 
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