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Sorry if I'm teaching any of you guys how to suck eggs, but there is a very useful but often over looked MS tool.

It lets you create restore points (think of them as snapshots) at any time and will automatically create them every now and again. It allows you to name them for reference.

The beauty of these RP's is that it allows you to roll back your PC config to any one of them.

Be warned, they do take a fair bit a HDD space. This can be configured under the System tab.

For example if you are about to install a piece of freeware from a magazine but are unsure if it will pooch your system. Create a RP first, install the freeware and if your 'puter starts to run funny, just recover to the last RP and all evidence of the freeware will have gone.

The best thing to do is re-build your system from scratch, create a Master RP and then add all your other stuff.

Absolutely brilliant IMHO.

Here are the help notes I found using the Help and support centre.

<font color=yellow>To create a Restore Point
Access the System Restore Wizard through Help and Support Center.
Click Create a restore point, and then click Next.
In the Restore point description box, type a name to identify this restore point. System Restore automatically adds to this name the date and time that this Restore Point is created.
To finish creating this restore point, click Create.
To cancel restore point creation and return to the Welcome to System Restore screen, click Back.
To cancel restore point creation and exit the System Restore Wizard, click Cancel.


To access the System Restore Wizard, click Start, and then click Help and Support. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Using System Restore to undo changes, and then click Run the System Restore Wizard.
Creating a restore point can be useful any time you anticipate making changes to your computer that are risky or might make your computer unstable.
To view or to return to this restore point, from the Welcome to System Restore screen of the System Restore Wizard select Restore my computer to an earlier time. Then select the date when the restore point was created from the calendar in the Select a Restore Point screen. All of the restore points that were created on the selected date are listed by name in the list box to the right of the calendar.</font id=yellow>

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SR f'd up my old Dell like you wouldent believe so me and the Dell tech rendered it useless. I dont believe it fixxed one single problem I ever had on the Dell( not that I had any but it was my first puter so I did goof it up from time to time ). On this machine I keep it's reserve space to a minimum so there is only two or three RPs at a time.

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Yes, it's useful, but all it does is back up the registry. It won't recover lost files and/or programs. I am, however, very fond of Norton Ghost. I have a complete backup of my entire machine on an external hardrive. This way I can recover everything in an hour or two if my PC won't reboot. If you can't get it to reboot, Restore is useless.

That being said, I have used Restore a number of times when I messed-up my PC and couldn't figure out how to undo what I just did. Useful tool...

ATTACK!!!!!!!

It's the corporate version of Ghost we use to handle all our std images for PC's.

It is very good, providing you remember to keep the main image on a physically seperate HDD to the 'working' HDD.

Your image isn't much use if the disk it's on aint spinning LOL...

I know Restore points aren't the answer to everything, but it's a neat way to fix those "wish I hadn't done that" moments especially if you're not a 'puter expert.

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