System Restore, A rewind button for PC

واضح آرشیو وب فارسی:سایت ریسک: Vahed03-08-2007, 02:59 PMUh-oh. You installed a new device, driver, or program, and now your PC is running poorly. You’ve tried various fixes, such as Add Or Remove Programs or Device Driver Rollback in Windows XP, but you’ve still come to a dead-end. It’s time to turn around and use a tool that Microsoft introduced when it released Windows Me: System Restore. System Restore lets you restore your computer to a previous state that is, a state that existed before you began encountering your current problem.Run into trouble, and you can revert to an earlier state without losing personal files (recent or otherwise), including word-processing documents, email messages, and bookmarked Web pages. As you use your PC, Windows monitors changes to your system and application- related files and regularly creates what it refers to as restore points. Todo this, it monitors all partitions and drives, as well as driver and application installations. During every 24 hours (inWinXP) or 10 hours (in WinMe) of computer use or 24 hours of calendar time, System Restore automatically creates a restore point, even if you haven’t made any system changes. For example, if you shut down your computer and don’t turn it on for three days, System Restore will create a restore point the next time you boot up. In addition, each time you install a program from a CD or other media, the tool creates a restore point.This also occurs when you install an app via downloaded software. So, even if you’re using WinXP’s Automatic Updates feature, System Restore will create a restore point once the updates begin the installation process. Plus, you can create your own restore points using the System Restore Wizard. Over time, you can see that the number of restore points could add up, especially if you use your PC frequently. Rather than eat up hard drive space, System Restore stores only between one to three weeks of restore points. How far back you can go to a restore point depends on three factors: how much you use your PC, how large your hard drive is, and how much drive space your PC has allotted to store System Restore data. As System Restore reaches its limits on creating restore points, the tool drops the earlier restore points. Thus, if you plan to use System Restore, you’ll need to do so relatively quickly after you notice a problem. (NOTE: If your Windows drive has fewer than 200MB of free space, WinMe and WinXP will disable System Restore by default.) As you use System Restore, the wizard walks you through selecting a restore point on its calendar. Simply select a date, and the tool restores your PC to that earlier time period, with one major exception: System Restore doesn’t touch your My Documents folder, and it doesn’t alter any files that use such common file extensions as .DOC or .XLS. A Few Caveats Although it’s a useful tool, System Restore is far from being a complete solution. Because System Restore is limited to a maximum 12% of hard drive space, it may purge useful restore points before you have a chance to use them. In addition, it will often render programs useless if they were installed after the restore point; so even though the programs’ data files aren’t deleted, you may need to uninstall and reinstall any such programs to make it possible to access these data files. Because of this, we recommend that you run Add Or Remove Programs to take care of potential problems before you use System Restore. And, perhaps most importantly, System Restore isn’t a true backup system. Yes, it can back up copies of the Registry, but that doesn’t mean you can count on it to back up other things. For instance, it won’t serve as a backup for earlier versions of Microsoft Word files you accidentally edited or changed. System Restore works best when it’s part of a complete restoration system, along with a dedicated backup application and such Windows tools as Add Or Remove Programs. By using a combination of these tools, you can get your system up and running again much more quickly. BY HEIDI V. ANDERSON سایت ما را در گوگل محبوب کنید با کلیک روی دکمه ای که در سمت چپ این منو با عنوان +1 قرار داده شده شما به این سایت مهر تأیید میزنید و به دوستانتان در صفحه جستجوی گوگل دیدن این سایت را پیشنهاد میکنید که این امر خود باعث افزایش رتبه سایت در گوگل میشود

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