Re: How will XP run on this machine?

From: Ken Blake (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:53:50 -0700

In news:Xns95F1C84B55DCFidispcom@216.196.97.142,
DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@a.d.e.l.p.h.i.a..n.e.t> typed:

> Ron Martell <ron.martell@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:2hj201dmsqt228oe67nrcg6q2b15tp9i6k@4ax.com:
>
>> "Vagabond Software" <carlfenley-X-@-X-san.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>
>> Bad advice. Dangerously bad. Never repeat never disable
>> System
>> Restore unless you consider your entire hard drive contents to
>> be
>> totally disposable with no need for recovery of anything.
>
> well i guess i do what should never, ever, be done. i ALWAYS
> turn off
> the system restore, and leave it off. (I think this opinion
> comes from
> Windows Me, which introduced the 'System Restore', and insisted
> that i
> had a hidden directory on the root of the c drive named
> _RESTORE.)
>
> from what i've read here, it a 50-50 shot on whether or not
> doing a
> system restore will fix whatever ails you.

Although System Restore is unfortunately not perfect, and
sometimes doesn't work at all, it works *way* more than 50% of
the time.

It's not the solution to all problems, of course, and even if it
works the way it's supposed to, it may not fix your problem.

But so what. There's no tool that fixes all problems, and that's
why it's good to have multiple tools in your tookit. A hammer
won't fix a loose screw, but it's still a good idea to own a
hammer as well as a screwdriver.

System restore has gotten me and many others I know out of
trouble many times. Perfect or not, as far as I'm concerned, it's
simply foolhardy to turn it off. 

-- 
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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