Frank Slootweg wrote:

Microsoft implies that SR doesn't touch user data.

What System Restore does, varies from one OS to the next.

You have to trace down a third-party web page with details.

WinXP for example, should not touch the contents of My Documents,
but if you don't use the Microsoft structure for your storage
purposes, you could find changes there. For example, using
C:\Frank would be a bad idea on WinXP, if restoring to a
three-month old restore point.

I can't answer for the others, because I don't think I
have a complete set of web pages for them. I might be
able to dig up a WinXP and a Vista. I don't know about
the rest though. Maybe sevenforums.com, eightforums.com,
and/or tenforums.com have the info in one of their
tutorials or something.

Paul