Re: System Restore Problems



"Galen" wrote:

> In news:3D07F537-26C7-4756-9A87-5B6B714904AC@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> BuddyHollyLives <BuddyHollyLives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
> > In addition, my DVD Writer now shows only 2 changes to Region left,
> > although I have only changed it once, and it had never showed
> > anything other than 4 before the restore (from when I set it after I
> > installed the drive). How do I get myself into these situations?
>
> I can help with that one. The DVD player/writer has four options to change.
> This has NOTHING to do with the OS. In fact, if you pull it out of your
> system after all 4 changes and put it into another PC entirely you will
> still have 0 changes left. Don't ask me how. I have no idea. I only
> understand that that's how it works. You can restore until you're blue in
> the face and nothing at all will change that. (Mind you I've heard of
> software applications which will allow you to bypass that entirely or to
> reset it but I don't think they're either legal or really worth the risk.) I
> don't know where your second used one went off to but I know that chances
> are that it's gone for good.
>
> How? Well... You don't seem to be a 'typical home user' from your post. That
> means that you like to push buttons and play with stuff. I'm certainly not
> going to advise against that. No, not at all. Basically I learned much of
> what I know (which isn't really that much) by breaking things so many times
> that I either ran out of friends who knew how or money enough to have
> someone fix it for me and had to learn to fix it on my own.
>
> Your system has quite a bit of power with plenty of RAM. It's plenty fast.
> There's no need, in my opinion, to go trying to tweak the few MB or so of
> RAM being used for the themes, you won't see enough of an improvement by
> doing so to warrant the lack of the pretty colors or the risks that you
> accept when you start changing stuff around. (Instead of using restore you
> could probably have booted into safe mode and changed it over in there.)
> There's safer tweaks that you can use... Put your pagefile on a different
> drive for instance. Use some of your RAM to run the taskbar in a separate
> process. Make sure your HDD is set to use the highest available UDMA support
> that it has or if it's SATA then the latest drivers for it. If you're
> worried about RAM and feel that the OS is eating away at it due to themes
> then get an updated video card with at least 128 MB of VRAM and disable the
> on-board stuff.
>
> As for uninstalling? Well that's going to be problematic now perhaps but
> have you tried to remove the folders that they were in, deleting any
> registry entries that they made, and finding any orphaned files? There's
> third party uninstallers available. One of them might do the trick?
>
> Finally... System Restore is not a backup tool. It's a tool that will do
> exactly what it says. It restores the system state to an earlier setting
> that hopefully worked. For backup you really should consider
> cloneing/ghosting your drive to another drive (I find that to be the best
> method) or getting a 10 pack of DVD R/Ws and using an application (I am not
> going to recommend a specific brand) to backup your system to them. That way
> you're free to poke at most anything you want to and instead of running the
> risk of losing it all and having to re-install everything when you do, not
> when you might but when you do as we all do it eventually, hose the system
> beyond repair you have the opportunity to restore it to the last time you
> saved everything in a very short time and all of your settings are still in
> place.
>
> Galen
> --
> Signature changed for a moment of silence.
> Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.
>
>
> my windows wont start it say windows system32 configuration fi le is either corrupt or missing it wont start windows. can i fix it without the sytem restore disc
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