Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 13:56:36 02/15/02
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On February 15, 2002 at 00:04:06, Sally Weltrop wrote: >On February 14, 2002 at 21:22:23, Jason Williamson wrote: > >>More or less what I gather. I am more concerned that I may disable some >>important thingy and not even know it. >> >>The system restore one was kinda scary to disable. >I would NEVER disable that 1, you have a problem and you want to go back .. >forget it! > >try these links, they explain it in simple terms: > > >Part 1 --> http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=guide&dId=120 > >Part 2 --> http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=guide&dId=145 >> >>JW IMO, System Restore is evil. I would almost never use it. Basically what it does is that every time something changes, the system saves some big file(s) containing the state of the system, so it can be restored later if necessary. If you're doing things that might be risky, I guess it's a good idea to have System Restore on. But under most normal circumstances, all the service does is eat a lot of cycles/resources in order to do its work. The only time I would consider even turning it on is when I'm changing hardware, or using some new experimental drivers that I think might harm the system. I do some pretty "risky" activities on my computer, and I don't take extreme precautions to protect it (I have never fully installed an anti-virus program since I've had WinNT/2k/XP, but I've never gotten a virus). I have never used System Restore, and it hasn't caused any problems for me yet. To each his own, of course. If it makes you feel safer to use it, then by all means do so. But I wouldn't call it necessary. Jeremiah
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