Windows Tips 'n' Tricks II
Nikhil Rastogi, Apr 20, 2008 1126 hrs IST
AVIs bringing your PC down? Vanishing system restores? Here's how to fix 'em and tweak the blues away!
Do's and Don'ts of System Restore
1. Understand that System Restore is not a complete backup. Don't expect your favourite song or movie to be backed up!
2. System Restore, being an incremental backup program, doesn't fully back up important files in one snapshot. It backs up only that which has changed from the initial backup. So if the system needs to be restored, then all Restore Points are necessary for restoration. Therefore if even one backup becomes corrupt, they're all useless ouch! Unless you create a restore point manually, of course.
3. You can set your System Restores to Off for drives other than C if you like. Windows has a bad habit of shoving System Restore points wherever it wants -- even onto portable devices -- which eats up space, and is not beneficial either, as portable devices aren't connected during the restoration process.
To do so...
a. Right-click My Computer and go to Properties.
b. Go to the System Restore tab.
c. Click on the drive in question and go to Settings.
d. Click Turn off.
5. Feel free to restrict system restore to utilize only a small percentage (5% should be enough) of the hard drive instead of the default 10%, which might be gigabytes of precious hard drive space for too many restore points:
a. Go to the System Restore tab.
b. Click on the C drive and hit Settings.
c. Bring the slider down to an acceptable size (such as 1 GB) reserved for System Restore.
That's it for this week. See you soon with another bagful of tricks!
USER COMMENTS
Thanks for that wonders from Asmara
by hamdani, Asmara, on Apr 25, 2008 07:04 PM, Report abuse
Thanks for knowledge. But many r known facts. Try to include some unknown, astonishing and new one's.
by Vinod, Bangalore, on Apr 25, 2008 02:36 PM, Report abuse Reply
u rock dude, thank u :) i like all ur stuff
by Jaideep Singh, Karnal, Haryana, on Apr 24, 2008 05:53 PM, Report abuse Reply
by ankur bhardwaj, Meerut, on Apr 23, 2008 04:17 PM, Report abuse Reply
i really like this. plz keep sending me hese type of mails
by sujan, hyd, on Apr 22, 2008 01:03 PM, Report abuse Reply
2 things one should know about system restore....a. it never helps when u need it and b. as yogeshb329 from New Delhi says whenever ur pc is infected by anything when system restore is on...consider all ur restore points infected too...so as far as i see, i always disable the service as i call it a waste fo time and resources...however, many may not share my view but jus another peice of crap from microsoft..... hey dude this article is jus too basic and not that informative for many noobs who would be looking out for such stuff...
by Vishal_Kadakia, mumbai, on Apr 21, 2008 07:17 PM, Report abuse Reply
System Restore is always useful. Specially if u r person like doing R & D. If we are tweaking with some system settings or registry and accidentally u have done something wrong and didn't understand what to do, system restore will always become useful at that time.
by Atul, Mumbai, on Apr 21, 2008 08:17 PM, Report abuse
And you have forgotten to mention a very critical disadvantage of System Restore. Everytime there's a viral or trojan attack, erst assured the goose for your PC is cooked and ready for disaster. S.R. will create back of each attack. Until you delete all the restore point you'll never be able to disinfact the machine. Go ahead talk to any vaccine designer and he'll advise to keep S.R. off particularly on your system drive such as 'C'
by yogeshb329, New Delhi, on Apr 20, 2008 11:27 PM, Report abuse Reply
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just a help from me too when there is system restore on u will find a folder (start nero + add files+ go to C drive+where u find a folder system volume information) or type C:\system volume information when u open that folder u will find all ur backup file but wid other name so copy them & paste to ur other drive & also if ur pc is infected by virus & u use system restore to back stage ur infected files r there in above mentioned folder so delete that file too
by Abhishek, Raipur, on Apr 21, 2008 07:58 PM, Report abuse Reply