Subj : Alternatives
To   : JEFF GUERDAT
From : Charles Scaglione
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 04:02 pm

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:36:00 -0400, "JEFF GUERDAT -> CHARLES
SCAGLIONE" <1:123/140> wrote:

 CS>> If you mean how can you look at individual files or folders that are
 CS>> within the restore point, you can't, as they are compressed.  You
 CS>> might be able to open the file with something like EditPad but it
 CS>> would appear garbled.  When you restore, everything that was stored in
 CS>> that particular point gets restored - you don't have a choice of
 CS>> selecting files or folders.  That's best left to something like True
 CS>> Image or Ghost.

 JG> It's worth noting that it's not a whole system backup, either, but only OS
 JG> files.  Data files won't be in there...

That's a good point.  Many users have taken hits over that because
they assumed system restore was an automated backup program.  MS
clearly points out in their help files that it is not.

One nice thing about system restore though is that it does copy the
current state of the registry.   Most times restoring the registry
back to when things were working right will get the system up and
running again.

Regards.

chscag at gmail dot com

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