System Restore

[Bob Havens]

I am using Win. XP Home. When I open System Properties and click on
System Restore I can not find "Drive settings". I want to alter the
things that Sys. Restore changes. Per Win. XP HELP there should be a
"Drive Setting" tab but I can't find it. Sys. Restore is turned on.
Am I not doing something properly?

Thanks,
Bob Havens

[peter]

right click My computer/properties/system restore
click a drive and there is the settings
peter
"Bob Havens" > wrote in message =
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| I am using Win. XP Home. When I open System Properties and click on
| System Restore I can not find "Drive settings". I want to alter the
| things that Sys. Restore changes. Per Win. XP HELP there should be a
| "Drive Setting" tab but I can't find it. Sys. Restore is turned on.
| Am I not doing something properly?
|=20
| Thanks,
| Bob Havens
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[Bob Havens]

I did what you said and still can't find it. All I have is a slider
to adjust the AMOUNT of disk space to use for S.R. and below that a
little display titled "status" and it tells me that S.R. is to monitor
Drive C which is the only drive that I have. (other than floppy disk
and CD drives). Maybe I did not understand what I read in Windows
Help. Is the slider to adjust the amount of disk space the only
adjustment there is??

Thanks,
Bob

[Will Denny]

Hi Bob

What, exactly, are you trying to do with SR - alter which 'things' that =
SR changes?

Will

"Bob Havens" > wrote in message =
...
> I did what you said and still can't find it. All I have is a slider
> to adjust the AMOUNT of disk space to use for S.R. and below that a
> little display titled "status" and it tells me that S.R. is to monitor
> Drive C which is the only drive that I have. (other than floppy disk
> and CD drives). Maybe I did not understand what I read in Windows
> Help. Is the slider to adjust the amount of disk space the only
> adjustment there is??
>=20
> Thanks,
> Bob
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[Bob Havens]

I am not sure how S.R. can be altered. I just want to see what is
available and then decide if I want to make any changes.
Bob

[Jeff Malka]

Well, I have something I would like to alter but do not know how.

1. I am on XP home on a single partition. On that partition I have a folder
named DATA with a lot of subfolders. How do I exempt the data folder and
its contents from SR? There does not seem to be a setting to exempt folders.

2. Also, in case of a bad system crash, I am still not clear what to do. If
I cannot bootup, I cannot reach system restore. Someone said that using
NTBackup does not permit ASR. I'm new to XP and really confused.

Thanks.

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Jeff Malka


Bob Havens wrote:
> I am not sure how S.R. can be altered. I just want to see what is
> available and then decide if I want to make any changes.
> Bob

[Will Denny]

Hi

Have you had a look in Help and Support? There is a fair amount of info =
in there about SR.

Will

"Bob Havens" > wrote in message =
...
> I am not sure how S.R. can be altered. I just want to see what is
> available and then decide if I want to make any changes.
> Bob
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[athanasian_creed]

Jeff Malka wrote:
> Well, I have something I would like to alter but do not know how.
>
> 1. I am on XP home on a single partition. On that partition I have a
> folder named DATA with a lot of subfolders. How do I exempt the data
> folder and its contents from SR? There does not seem to be a setting
> to exempt folders.
>
> 2. Also, in case of a bad system crash, I am still not clear what to
> do. If I cannot bootup, I cannot reach system restore. Someone said
> that using NTBackup does not permit ASR. I'm new to XP and really
> confused.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Bob Havens wrote:
>> I am not sure how S.R. can be altered. I just want to see what is
>> available and then decide if I want to make any changes.
>> Bob

System Restore can't be altered in any way - in regards to suffering a bad
system crash (can't boot into Windows) i would suggest a program called
GoBack, which restores a system EXACTLY to a point in time. It creates
restore points automatically several times within a minute so if you have a
bad program install, get a virus/trojan, you can go back to before the
problem. It will also allow you to use it's restore feature even if you
can't boot into Windows. Why everyone doesn't use it is beyond me - it's
only $29 US and is available from Symantec (bought from Roxio last month)

Check it out !

Ray

[saeengineer]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 18:52:50 -0400, "Jeff Malka" >
wrote:

>Well, I have something I would like to alter but do not know how.
>
>1. I am on XP home on a single partition. On that partition I have a =
folder
>named DATA with a lot of subfolders. How do I exempt the data folder =
and
>its contents from SR? There does not seem to be a setting to exempt =
folders.

SR only monitors and restores OS system files.

That data is already exempt.

>
>2. Also, in case of a bad system crash, I am still not clear what to do.=
If
>I cannot bootup, I cannot reach system restore. Someone said that using
>NTBackup does not permit ASR. I'm new to XP and really confused.
>
>Thanks.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;304449

[Bob Havens]

I read everything there is in help about SR. Now I know probably more
than I need to know. It would seem that since I only have one drive,
except a floppy and CD drive, the only thing I can do with it is
change the amount of disk space. It is on MAX which is where I will
leave it since I have enough disk space to last my life time.

One last question:
Sometimes my browser finds its way to some rather nasty web sites. I
frequently clear History, Cookies and files in Internet Explorer.

I hope SR will not bring them back. Will it???

Thanks,
Bob