System Restore.....who forgot it existed?

[Zak33]

ME

Jiff....can I walk you home, you sexxeh beast

I have now decided to make it part of my life

[Jiff Lemon]

You really appreciate when you've a non booting system - Boot into safe mode, and you're asked "do you want to repair using system restore"

For some minor stuff, it's a god send!

[Zak33]

for my Dad's PC, with 4000 new fonts, all designed for Windows 95 and earlier, it was heaven sent

Cheers fella...it was hard to find the Wizard tho. System Restore itself shows in System Properties but there is no link to the wizard there...just shows the HDD's and the fact its working.

Have to go Start, ?Help and Support, then on the right choose Undo Changes with System Restore.

Once I'd found that, what a cool thing
Even comes with a calendar, the dates with a restore point are in Bold, the things that have happened interms of Installs listed, and thats how I found when he'd put it all in

Just.....lovely.

Is there a way to have a shortcut link on the desktop , for that Wizard? I tried to right click the link but no go

It would be worth its weight in gold. Then,I could get him to Make a Restore Point before installing anyything. Infact...I will use it on MY PC too

[Jiff Lemon]

Thats exactley what the old fella does - Pretty certain he had a shortcut to it on his desktop.

Its saved me SO much work, it's untrue!

[Zak33]

Pretty certain he had a shortcut to it on his desktop.

tell me how please

[Moby-Dick]

had to use it the other day
its pretty good

[menthel]

It is truely fantastic. It has saved my bacon a few times in the past. I always make sure I have a couple of points at known stable points and one before I do anything exciting/ brave!

[Jiff Lemon]

tell me how please

New shortcut - point to:

%systemroot%\SYSTEM32\Restore\rstrui.exe

[Zak33]

oh no ya dont.

that looks like Registry...I dont do registry

[Jiff Lemon]

Nope - %Systemroot% simply means the place where you installed windows.

So if you'd upgraded a 2k install %systemroot% = winnt.
If you'd done a standard XP install it'd be Windows

If you'd done some wierd mutha fudger install, where you'd installed it to a folder called fred on a drive called Z:, %systemroot% will find it.

Do you REALLY think I'm gonna send you or your Dad near the registry?

[Blub2k]

na Zak it isn't a registry entry, %systemroot% is a variable that applies to where the windows folder is installed, in that form it basically reads where windows folder is and can be applied to any system
just replace it with a path to where you are installed
or you drag the shortcut from all programs\accessories\system tools\system restore to the desktop

[Zak33]

riiiiiight

ta...

ya know.....much maligned as the old Gates Monster is, without Bill I would not be able to do half as much stupid question asking as I do

cheers fellas