Re: WIN XP SYSTEM RESTORE FAILS 80%

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You're welcome. Let us know how it works out.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org


Ace wrote:
Thank you Mr.Kinney :)
I will give this a shot on the new laptop, which still has System Restore in unmodified state.
On the desktop it has been intentionally crippled since 2003. :)



Bert Kinney wrote

Hi Ace,

Here's another method of excluding drives from System Restore.

TweakXP.com - Exclude specific folders from system restore backup
http://www.tweakxp.com/article37472.aspx

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

Ace wrote:
Side note slightly off-topic;
System Restore will happily glue itself to any and all 'fixed'
drives, harddrives either IDE, SATA, USB, Firewire when they are
attached to the computer in Windows XP SP2, and it will also happily
and silently re- enable itself on all drives after a reboot, or after
plugging them back into the system.

After a year of repeatedly turning off system restore on any drive
other than my system drive, i've chosen to completely kill System
Restore as i've found that when the time comes to utilise it.. it
doesn't work. Instead I run automatic incremental backups each
wednesday and a full disk image backup each month to DVD media.




"Gerry" wrote

System Restore should only be set to monitor your System drive!
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  • Re: Unable to disable System Restore
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  • Re: System Restore causes loss of data files.
    ... On 5/17/2007 8:14 PM On a whim, Bert Kinney pounded out on the keyboard ... I think it would have been wise to disable it by default for external drives but leave it on for all internal drives/partitions. ... Q. Does System Restore protect personal data files? ... System Restore does not monitor changes to or recover personal data files such as Word documents, graphics, e-mail, etc. ...
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  • Re: Unscheduled System Restore at Every Startup?
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  • Re: System Restore is monitoring wrong disks/partitions
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