J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
writes:
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On WinXP, files outside your "My Documents" tree
are tracked. Say you normally keep Firefox downloads
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Restore Point. Files kept in the "officially blessed"
parts of C: are unaffected, so nothing in My Documents
gets added or subtracted to match the way it was
three days ago.

Paul

Are you saying _everything_ else - or maybe everything else on C: - gets
tracked, and potentially restored (synced)? This must make for a huge
tracking area (if for example you [or the system] delete a few feature
films).

One of the MVPs wrote a web page with the details of
what WinXP System Restore tracks/adds/subtracts.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060413...:80/index.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20060311...esfolders.html

List of folders that System Restores does NOT Monitor in Windows XP
...
%personaldocuments% == Probably means %userprofile%\My Documents but not sure.

I only noticed this, when I lost a couple files
out of C:\Downloads after using System Restore.

If you use SR from normal OS mode, it's reversible.

If you do System Restore from Safe Mode, it cannot
be undone (do a backup first!).

Paul