Turning off System Restore...
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Right-click Computer, then Properties.
Click Advanced system settings.
Click the System Protection tab, then untick all disks.
Click Advanced system settings.
Click the System Protection tab, then untick all disks.
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My god, somebody actually being thanked for help given on this forum. Happens far too infrequently..
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Negative. Turning System Restore off is one of the first things I do with a new install.
Negative+
Leaving it on has no performance hit in real world usage and serves as an Excellent return point should a driver update prove to be problematic or a Windows Update faulty (which does happen occasionally) or user error renders Windows unbootable at which point a pre-boot system restore can bring it back to life without having to reinstall the OS.
The statement that SR is bad belongs in the same boat with statements made by people about MS being bad and Vista being bad and slow etc etc.
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I laugh in the face of user error!
What's the benefit of having it off if there's a balance? 
It's not a realtime running service and is only activated during system changes or software installation that modifies system files (drivers included) and does not change files in the user's document folders so all benefits point to it being left on rather than off!
I never make user (since moving from XP) errors which is why I've never had to use SR on Vista yet (had it since release day) but I still have it on Just in case even though I am 100% confident in my ability to not make a mistake or install something that could damage a component of Vista!
It's not a realtime running service and is only activated during system changes or software installation that modifies system files (drivers included) and does not change files in the user's document folders so all benefits point to it being left on rather than off!I never make user (since moving from XP) errors which is why I've never had to use SR on Vista yet (had it since release day) but I still have it on Just in case even though I am 100% confident in my ability to not make a mistake or install something that could damage a component of Vista!
System Restore can be and has been a life saver.
All it needs to do is save you a system reinstall once and it's worth keeping.
As said above, it takes up no system resources (except a few GB of storage and we can all spare some of that).
All it needs to do is save you a system reinstall once and it's worth keeping.
As said above, it takes up no system resources (except a few GB of storage and we can all spare some of that).
Haha!I count 48 though.
and the 1 in the post
agreed though, system restore is always off, drivers are saved anyway
Leave it on.
Recently thought I would be smart and left it off after playing around then could not boot into Vista so had to reinstall again from scratch as could not get into the desktop.
Only time it is pointless is if you have a dual boot with XP apparently it will not work at all if you try to restore Vista which sucks but its a bad mistake from MS.
Recently thought I would be smart and left it off after playing around then could not boot into Vista so had to reinstall again from scratch as could not get into the desktop.
Only time it is pointless is if you have a dual boot with XP apparently it will not work at all if you try to restore Vista which sucks but its a bad mistake from MS.
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hmm
The playing around was just installing the newest version of Diskeeper totally rendered Vista unable to load the desktop afterwards.