Anyone who's ever used this will no EXACTLY what im talking about, it basically saved me so much hassle today

 

I know what you mean. Saved me loads of grief before. Only problem is I want to restore again but haven't made a restore point for ages

 

well when i did mine today i just went onto it about 2pm this afternoon and on system restore it had got 6.06am today which was the last time i logged on, so as far as i can see mines making a restore point from everytime i log in my pc?

And ive never ever touched system restore until today so its all default.......

 

I makes a restore point at least everyday, usually at random times, but it can also be for times you boot up or log on....

I think it's a great function - if I am about to install something I am unsure about I usually create a restore point, THEN install it, and if it's no good or don't like it, I can restore back to *just* before I changed anything

It has caused me grief one time tho! I dis-installed Nokia PC Suite v5 and installed v6, then installed the MS bluetooth drivers... Didn't like what it did so I did a system restore. Upon restarting tho, a window popped up saying it couldn't find Nokia PC suite v5... It had removed v6, and thought it was running on v5. So I looked in add remove programmes and there was v5, so I went to remove and it woulnd't let me - nor would it let me do it in safe mode So I tried installing v6 on it again but it kept hanging saying I had to uninstall v5 Which the PC wouldn't let me do as it wasn't on there, but the PC thought it was

Sorted it tho by installing v5 on it again and just ticking the "overwrite old installation" thingy.....

But on the whole it saves a lot of time and grief

 

 

Option is turned off on my laptop

 

The system restore only look's after your windows system files. If you delete a document, you won't be able to run the system restore and get it back

Currently turned off on all 4 of my hard drives

 

You make it sound like having system restore turned off a good thing? whats bad about having it on?

And i know it cant retrieve your documents or anything but hopefully the average pc user isnt stupid enough to delete something they want!

 

ive had to use it today for the first time in years. Couldn't fix it manually.