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Redjake · 01-27-2006, 08:12 AM

Why does a large portion of the computing industry have a dire hatred for System Restore? It's saved my ass countless times. It seems like every other computer tech guy I talk to swears against it and laughs at me for ever touching it.

My sister's computer's mouse and keyboard stopped working one day. I messed around, reinstalled some drivers, all that. Didn't do a damn thing. Doing all that shit with the arrow keys sucks. Anyway, I pulled a System Restore to the day before, everything works again. Perfectly. Hasn't messed up since.

One time I couldn't play DivX movies on my computer anymore because of a codec issue that the Nimo codec pack had with my current drivers. I tried EVERYTHING. Uninstalled ALL of my drivers, including video, all of it. Reinstalled everything. Video still corrupted. Did System Restore to two days back, everything works again. Flawlessly.

And for the best ones: Internet doesn't work, video is fucked, computer is running 50% as fast as usual, windows close by themselves, music is distorted. Didn't even try to fix it. System Restore to 5 days back, everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is fixed again. Was it a virus? Doubtful, but whatever it was, System Restore fixed it all. Why do people hate this little tool so much? It's saved me hundreds of hours of painstaking monotony. Any thoughts/opinions?

01-27-2006, 08:12 AM	#1 (permalink)
Redjake I'm a family man - I run a family business. Location: Wilson, NC	Windows XP System Resore Why does a large portion of the computing industry have a dire hatred for System Restore? It's saved my ass countless times. It seems like every other computer tech guy I talk to swears against it and laughs at me for ever touching it. My sister's computer's mouse and keyboard stopped working one day. I messed around, reinstalled some drivers, all that. Didn't do a damn thing. Doing all that shit with the arrow keys sucks. Anyway, I pulled a System Restore to the day before, everything works again. Perfectly. Hasn't messed up since. One time I couldn't play DivX movies on my computer anymore because of a codec issue that the Nimo codec pack had with my current drivers. I tried EVERYTHING. Uninstalled ALL of my drivers, including video, all of it. Reinstalled everything. Video still corrupted. Did System Restore to two days back, everything works again. Flawlessly. And for the best ones: Internet doesn't work, video is fucked, computer is running 50% as fast as usual, windows close by themselves, music is distorted. Didn't even try to fix it. System Restore to 5 days back, everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is fixed again. Was it a virus? Doubtful, but whatever it was, System Restore fixed it all. Why do people hate this little tool so much? It's saved me hundreds of hours of painstaking monotony. Any thoughts/opinions? __________________ Off the record, on the q.t., and very hush-hush.