Re: What does 'System Restore' do?


bxf wrote:
> Bert Kinney wrote:
> > What was the file extension of the files that were missing?
>
> Sorry, too long ago to say with certainty, but I think they were a
> couple of folders containing JPEGs, etc. I did view the MS site
> providing SYSTEM RESTORE info, including the list of extensions that
> are monitored, and none of those would be applicable.

Whoops, someting just clicked while I was reading another post, and I
think I just remembered something. I may have lost my DOWNLOADs folder
(or part thereof), which is on my D partition. Of course, this folder
contained EXE type files, so that would explain why SYSTEM RESTORE
included this folder in its processing.

However, this makes things rather risky, unless one know this advance
and disables specific drives/partitions from SYSTEM RESTORE. I don't
recall if it touched anything on my second OS (dual booting).

.

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