System Restore

[JakJak]

Have you ever had to do a System Restore? I just did. All the icons went from the top to bottom to right to left. :lol:

 

[Gimgak]

I had to do a complete restore to factory settings with an error I got in vista, problem was I didn't have the vista disk which was how to fix it, and my CD drive is broken 😛 (Bug in my laptop, gotta get Dell to fix it 😛)

 

[Kashike]

Never had to on any of my PC's, Servers or Laptops

 

[Azza12342]

I had to use system restore once, had a virus which was so dumb that it didn't delete the system restore checkpoints /fail for that virus maker.

Most viruses will delete all your system restore points as they infect your system. I had a virus not too long ago that did this, I tried to restore but all my restore points were deleted. After I logged off the virus deleted my windows logon files which made it impossible to load windows, so I figured a repair install would fix it... No so I had to reinstall a whole new Windows XP and reformat my C DRIVE, lost EVERYTHING /RAGE.

Viruses suck, some can be noob (/fail) but some can be bitches.

 

[Gimgak]

I had to use system restore once, had a virus which was so dumb that it didn't delete the system restore checkpoints /fail for that virus maker.

Most viruses will delete all your system restore points as they infect your system. I had a virus not too long ago that did this, I tried to restore but all my restore points were deleted. After I logged off the virus deleted my windows logon files which made it impossible to load windows, so I figured a repair install would fix it... No so I had to reinstall a whole new Windows XP and reformat my C DRIVE, lost EVERYTHING /RAGE.

Viruses suck, some can be noob (/fail) but some can be bitches.

almost had to do that, luckily I had the option to do that easily on my laptop with just a factory settings reformat 😛

 

[Pixel Pirate]

I turn that crap off. No use a waste of harddrive space.

 

[Azza12342]

I turn that crap off. No use a waste of harddrive space.

I do now 😛.

 

[CyberFreak]

I have used System Restore alot... I always tend to touch things that break and mess up.

 

[Azza12342]

I have used System Restore alot... I always tend to touch things that break and mess up.

I don't, if they break for me I just stop using them... Unless I need them and their important ofcourse.

 

[birdy]

System Restore is a good friend of mine we are pretty close!

 

[CyberFreak]

I have used System Restore alot... I always tend to touch things that break and mess up.

I don't, if they break for me I just stop using them... Unless I need them and their important of course.

For me they usually are important things or things that create errors everytime you start up your laptop.

 

[Mr. Money]

I have done restore to factory settings like 10 times lol

 

[FWhite]

System Restore is worthless, which is why I have it disabled.

If I screw something up badly, I just reformat.

 

[Julie Kane]

I always use the System Restore; it's really useful to have. Whenever I mess something up on the computer the first thing I do is do System Restore however if that doesn't help I will usually go to the experts; unless it's a driver/hardware issue I would go to the experts first.

 

[Rich Edmonds]

In my experience, using it once, it did more damage than good. I love the big blue button (no, not that red one!) for reformatting 🙂

 

[Creativebot]

I have many times in the past, but recently I have not. The one thing that didnt work with a system restore was getting rid of a ghost icon. So I completely had to start from scratch!

 

[JakJak]

I didn't think they had 'System Restore' on Apples. I read on the web they did though. Things you learn each day are important in everyday life. :lol:

 

[Azza12342]

I have used System Restore alot... I always tend to touch things that break and mess up.

I don't, if they break for me I just stop using them... Unless I need them and their important of course.

For me they usually are important things or things that create errors everytime you start up your laptop.

*Cough* *Cough* all the Asus non needed programs, E.G: Asus GAMER OSD etc.

 

[Nathan]

I do have it enabled on my laptop and ive set them to automatically make one every 2 days, this is because i got alot of important files on my laptop and i don't have enough time/space to back them all up so i just use a system restore when i need to. It also saves me from having to reformat my PC and lose everything.

 

[Creativebot]

I didn't think they had 'System Restore' on Apples. I read on the web they did though. Things you learn each day are important in everyday life. :lol:

I dont have an apple haha. But Apple has a program called the Time Machine which makes backups of your computer like system restores.