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Wyodiver33 · 02-01-2006, 05:22 PM

I actually think that I'm pretty good at troubleshooting XP problems and that I'm pretty good at preventing XP problems. But System Restore has worked very well for me in the past. The only problem I usually have is that certain restore points don't work, so I have to pick another date. That's time consuming but still faster than doing a fresh install. I like cJoe's idea of making a crash-recovery disk. I need to do that soon. But I do believe that System Restore should always be tried before giving up and reformatting and/or reinstalling XP. I downloaded an app from LimeWire a few months ago that within minutes of running the app my box started to freak out big-time. Going to Safe-Mode and running System Restore totally fixed the problem. Maybe that's the secret, using Safe Mode. I don't know, but IMHO System Restore is alway a viable tool.

02-01-2006, 05:22 PM	#9 (permalink)
Wyodiver33 Just here for the beer. Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Floriduh	I actually think that I'm pretty good at troubleshooting XP problems and that I'm pretty good at preventing XP problems. But System Restore has worked very well for me in the past. The only problem I usually have is that certain restore points don't work, so I have to pick another date. That's time consuming but still faster than doing a fresh install. I like cJoe's idea of making a crash-recovery disk. I need to do that soon. But I do believe that System Restore should always be tried before giving up and reformatting and/or reinstalling XP. I downloaded an app from LimeWire a few months ago that within minutes of running the app my box started to freak out big-time. Going to Safe-Mode and running System Restore totally fixed the problem. Maybe that's the secret, using Safe Mode. I don't know, but IMHO System Restore is alway a viable tool. __________________ I like stuff.