-=PCTechTalk=- Re: System Restore
- From: "Joyce" <jmcclure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:33:30 -0600
This kind of scared me! I thought System Restore would be really neat if I
downloaded something and got into trouble. I have set a number of restore
points but thankfully have not had to use it yet. And now I am a little bit
fearful. Can anyone reassure me?
Joyce
----- Original Message -----
From: "~OoO~" <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 3:51 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Registry error
> First off, be careful with System Restore. To answer your question, yes it
> could hurt. System Restore should usually be left for lost-hope cases.
> But,
> your computer is functioning right now, and you can still get it up and
> running. I would reserve S/R for those more severe instances, due to the
> config changes it does.
>
> To see if it's a specific app, you should go into START | RUN | MSCONFIG |
> STARTUP tab and uncheck anything in there you're either not familiar with
> or
> familiar with but don't want to start automatically. Restart the computer
> and see if that fixes it. If so, then its one of those apps.
>
> If that doesn't get rid of the error, you can try disabling everything in
> the STARTUP tab we were just at, and see if again the problem goes away.
>
> Stay away from System Restore for now. Yes, entirely possible that it'll
> fix
> the problem with no other consequences, but there's also a chance that
> it'll
> mess up something else you weren't anticipating.
>
> ---Troth
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