Have a metting in an hour needs idea's (system restore)

kriscamaro68

We have system restore turned on for all of our computers here at the college. We have had a recent outbreak of viruses here and some computers had infected files in the system restore folder. I told my manager that we should disable system restore on all computers because its known that viruses like to get in system restore folders and hide and then get restored back if you use the feature. Also I told him about the advantage of gaining back 12% of the hd space. Any other reasons why it is good to disable it that you can think of?

Thanks.

Forsaken_GA

well you'll also get a slight performance gain by turning the service off (it's usually among the first 5 things I do for any windows install)

Hyper-Me

Very often i've seen the system restore feature in XP destroy the trust relationship for a domain computer.

I don't consider system restore an option in a domain environment.

NightShade03

How many times have you actually used system restore? I don't think I ever have which is another reason we disable it.

kriscamaro68

I have used system restore twice a long time ago but not within the past 4 years or so. Hyper how did it mess up the trust between the dc and the client?