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Old 01-20-2007   #4 (permalink)
Bert Kinney


 
 

Re: How good is Vista's System Restore

Hi Alan,

I would not recommend using rollback applications that were designed for XP,
and nothing from Norton, who purchased GoBack.

Previous version/Shadow Copy can be used to recover single files and folders.
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/shadow.html

System Restore in Windows Vista well for recovering from system problems.
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/vista.html

For Vista Business and Ultimate users there's Complete PC Backup.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/soft...9272295,00.htm

For Vista Home users, Acronis True Image is a good choice.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org


Alan Robinson wrote:
> I have been using Symantec's GoBack for many years and it has saved my bacon
> on many occassions. But will not be available for Vista. I have been looking
> at Rollback RX which is supposed to be really good but you have problems
> defraging your hard disk. You have to uninstall rollback, defrag and then
> re-intsall and then you lose your restore points. So how good is Vista's
> system restore? Would I be able to bank on it in an emergency? Any thoughts
> and ideas would be appreciated. I did think of Acronis True Image as a
> companion, but was rreally looking for something along the lines of GoBack.
> Many thanks,
> Alan.

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