System Restore

ricktea

I have been studying system restore and I know it will be on
the test. It is a great trouble shooting tool when it works.

The books I have read guide you in setting up restore points,
however, in my own experience in restoring computers, sometimes
these restore points do not work, even trying recent restore points
and restore points a month in the past., using XP professional.

Why is system restore not reliable sometimes, and you get the
message "cannot restore computer".

Silver Bullet

System restore is only allowed to use a specified amount of disk space (which you can specify by going to System Restore settings and adjusting the slider) so it is possible that it will start overwriting some of its previous restore points.

System Restore is ok for undoing recent changes but should never take place of a good backup plan.

ricktea

Yes, I have set up system restore on my own computer and have
used the maximum setting for system restore. I have 80 gig hard drive and 63 gigs of free space. Even with all this free space system restore does not work sometimes. What is the key to a successful system
restore besides setting up your own restore points.

Plantwiz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_restore

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_restore.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310405

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084

ricktea

can't seem to find some recent posts I made, they are not
appearing, perhaps there is something wrong with my ISP,
or my computer, are the posts pending. thankyou