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Old December 28th 17, 11:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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In message , Paul
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

How about the other case: 'files outside your "My Documents" tree
are tracked' also _implies_ that files that _did_ exist when the
restore point was created, but were subsequently deleted, will
magically reappear when it's invoked. This was the bit I found hard
to swallow.


That's possible and likely to happen.

Why not test it ? :-)

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This is what VMs are for.


Hm. My main machine (this XP one) is a single-core, with the 2G maximum
it can take; my W7, with 3G, is I _think_ also a single core.

Hence VMs are something I haven't really played with ... (-:
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I think what I'd missed was that only certain file _types_ are tracked.
(Though even that could lead to pretty big restore points.)
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