"Quaresma" <Quaresma@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> In response to all your comments I read I have a few questions to ask...
>
> First off is,if Vista starts killing off the restore point from oldest and
> make new ones whats the point of making sure that I even have it at that
> exact point in time i want to restore because Vista will kill it off
> anyway...
Because it's designed to handle relatively recent issues. If it were
unlimited, it would have to start deleting files on the hard drive would it
not. If you make regular backups, don't you eventually delete older backup
files to make room for new ones; same principle.
>
> How do I manually create Restore Points? I already disabled it? Will it
> affect anything if I enabled it again? I see my harddrive space keep
> depleting with this function on and I gained back 7 gigs with it disabled.
> I
> have a 200 hdd and i dont have any intention to get more harddrive space.
Yes, you would have to turn it back on. If you made manual restore points
they would be in addition to the automatic restore points made by System
Restore but still would take up no more room than the amount of space
allocated.
>
> I have the recovery disc that I already created, isn't that good enough? I
> know that with system restore i can decide when to save my files etc so I
> dont have to start back at square one. I don't know, I'm new with Vista so
> trying to get more performance out of this O/S. I might even reduce the
> shadow storage size but for some reason I can't get to the cmd prompt line
> in
> order to access the command to reach to the vssadmin. Any ideas?
A recovery disk takes you back to square one, or the point at which the disk
was created. If you've added applications, hardware, changed hardware,
added software since the disk was created, whatever isn't on the recovery
disk, needs to be reinstalled.
Suppose you have an issue, you click something and something is supposed to
happen and for some reason it doesn't. You can't think of of what you might
have done but you do know it worked yesterday but not today. If you have a
restore point that takes you back to a time prior to when the event began,
you can run System Restore to see if it resolves without having to take more
time or resorting to more drastic measures. Everything else should remain
intact, no muss, no fuss though you should always be sure your data is well
backed up in case something goes wrong. But assuming things work as they
should, it's a relatively painless first step that can save you a lot of
time and effort that is often involved in doing a full system recovery.
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