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restore point
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 7:54 am
Posted by neilbigh101
(81 messages posted)
hi, I have a restore point that i want to delete/remove is there anyway i can do
this, thanks in advance for any help, Neil
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re: restore point
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 8:47 am
Posted by Ricer46
(22013 messages posted)
It's all or none. Delete restore points, by turning SR off, then back on. You may
have to reboot in between, I don't recall since I turned off SR 7 years ago.
On Friday, July 3, 2009 at 7:54 am, neilbigh101 wrote:
>hi, I have a restore point that i want to delete/remove is there anyway i can do
>this, thanks in advance for any help, Neil
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re: restore point
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 9:06 am
Posted by neilbigh101
(81 messages posted)
Thanks Ricer, will give it a try, just one more thing, why did you turn this feature
off any advantge?, thanks again, Neil
On Friday, July 3, 2009 at 8:47 am, Ricer46 wrote:
>It's all or none. Delete restore points, by turning SR off, then back on. You may
>have to reboot in between, I don't recall since I turned off SR 7 years ago.
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re: restore point
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 10:13 am
Posted by Ricer46
(22013 messages posted)
It is extremely unreliable, and problems are cumulative in it, and it's a waste of
disk space, and simply doesn't cover enough of the potential problems that can happen.
I've always used disk imaging (currently Acronis), others use Erunt which backs up
the registry.
A well designed disk setup, can allow you to recover fairly easily as long as two
hard drives don't die simultaneously. Just earlier this week, I was able to return
my ex's system to normal, despite the fact that her mobo had died, and someone else
had installed a new XP for her... fortunately they selected the correct partition.
Since her system hadn't been backed up in three years, it took some time for me to
bring everything up to date, but what was really important to her that all of her
data was still in tact, it was automatically backed up weekly.
On Friday, July 3, 2009 at 9:06 am, neilbigh101 wrote:
>Thanks Ricer, will give it a try, just one more thing, why did you turn this feature
>off any advantge?, thanks again, Neil
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re: restore point
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 10:25 am
Posted by Gary
(68 messages posted)
Download and use ERUNT. System Restore is buggy and is basically junk. With erunt
you can even delete a restore point.
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re: restore point
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Posted by Peter
(243 messages posted)
System Restore isn't the best program in the world but despite what others may have
experienced it's kept me going since I first started with ME all those years ago.It's
a useful first line of defence which may be all you need to get you out of a mess.
Make sure your latest restore point is for a correctly operating computer.
Now;
Start
All programs
Accessories
System Tools
DiskCleanup
More Options
System Restore
You can now delete all but the last restore points.
On Friday, July 3, 2009 at 10:25 am, Gary wrote:
>Download and use ERUNT. System Restore is buggy and is basically junk. With erunt
>you can even delete a restore point.
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re: restore point
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Posted by Ricer46
(22013 messages posted)
"Make sure your latest restore point is for a correctly operating computer."
That is the hitch, some problems cascade, the system you thought was okay, may have
some subtle problems, and they can worsen with time.
On Friday, July 3, 2009 at 12:33 pm, Peter wrote:
>System Restore isn't the best program in the world but despite what others may have
>experienced it's kept me going since I first started with ME all those years ago.It's
>a useful first line of defence which may be all you need to get you out of a mess.
>Make sure your latest restore point is for a correctly operating computer.
>Now;
>Start
>All programs
>Accessories
>System Tools
>DiskCleanup
>More Options
>System Restore
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>You can now delete all but the last restore points.
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re: restore point
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Posted by Phil
(881 messages posted)
Hi neilbigh 101,
You said you are interested in deleting just one restore point.
CCleaner: CCleaner Here just came out with
a new version that includes the option of getting rid of just one or as many of your
Restore points as you want too.
I use it and it works as described.
Regards,
Phil
" ....Nuff Said! Keep Smiling Because I'm Smiling Too..."
On Friday, July 3, 2009 at 7:54 am, neilbigh101 wrote:
>hi, I have a restore point that i want to delete/remove is there anyway i can do
>this, thanks in advance for any help, Neil
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