How often do you set a system restore point in ME/XP?

[yoda313]

Hello,

This has probably been asked before but I'm curious.

I just recently got XP (I had 2000 on my old computer and that did not have system restore).

I'm setting the restore point before every hardware modification. How often do you do yours???

Kevin

[stiltman]

Never, I run win2k

[Goober57]

Never, I run win2k

Welcome to the club! 8)

What the heck is XP????

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[808smokey]

I never use XP's built in restore.


I use Norton Ghost 2003 and it works great.

As for how often, only when I install something new or when I have something important that I really need

[yoda313]

Never, I run win2k

Welcome to the club! 8)

What the heck is XP????

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Hello,



You two are funny

If you read my post I had WIN 2000 on my old hp and loved it. But my new Celeron comes with XP preloaded and I haven't had anyreason to change it

Kevin

[ViRaL1]

I've been running Media Center for about a week and I haven't set a manual restore point yet. But anytime I install and unsigned driver, or clean anything with Spybot, one gets set.

[Goober57]

Never, I run win2k

Welcome to the club! 8)

What the heck is XP????

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Hello,



You two are funny

If you read my post I had WIN 2000 on my old hp and loved it. But my new Celeron comes with XP preloaded and I haven't had anyreason to change it

Kevin

I don't really keep up with modern technology like I should.

I'll have to do some more reading!

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[Faustus]

Mac user, but on my PC I let XP do its think. IT has a good clue when to do it. Right before unsigned drivers are installed. Before some program installs. So I"ve not been caught in the cold yet with the standard settings.

[rallynavvie]

It doesn't matter if the drivers are "signed" or not, sometimes they'll still cause conflicts. I only use Ghost to make an image of my clean installation with all my core applications installed. I pretty much have only applications and temporary items on my boot drive so if something goes terribly wrong and a restore doesn't fix it I can just jump to that image and start rebuilding from there, adding apps as the need arises. I figure if it's a driver issue or something like that then it shouldn't hurt all the data stored on the other drives, and all the important files from there are backed up manually ever so often to external hard drives or my home server.

[Faustus]

It doesn't matter if the drivers are "signed" or not, sometimes they'll still cause conflicts. I only use Ghost to make an image of my clean installation with all my core applications installed. I pretty much have only applications and temporary items on my boot drive so if something goes terribly wrong and a restore doesn't fix it I can just jump to that image and start rebuilding from there, adding apps as the need arises. I figure if it's a driver issue or something like that then it shouldn't hurt all the data stored on the other drives, and all the important files from there are backed up manually ever so often to external hard drives or my home server.

Under 2k and XP I've never had a problem with an unsigned driver. I've had them SUCK, but not an unfixable must roll back problem.

[rallynavvie]

Under 2k and XP I've never had a problem with an unsigned driver. I've had them SUCK, but not an unfixable must roll back problem.

Exactly what I said

The whole driver signing idea was a bit too large an endeavor for even M$. Trying to keep up with every driver update for every piece of hardware running operating systems 3 generations old is just ludicrous. Finding a "signed" driver is a unique exception to all the unsigned ones we end up installing anyway. One case in point: printers.

[jimmalenko]

I pretty much leave XP to its own devices, and let it create them whenever it thinks it needs to, but I do also create them when I'm installing something that I might choose to rollback at any stage.

[vitualis]

Agreed, I just let XP do its thing.

On occasion, roll back has been useful (e.g., when a new driver screwed up).

Regards.

[bazooka]

I let it create points automatically whenever it feels it needs too.