Restoring

[JimL]

XP Pro, SP3 Updated to tomorrow. On both my T42 and the T60p I'm running now I have never gotten Restore points to work.

I read a lot on forums about the restore system refusing to make restore points. I have a different problem. It shows a pile of restore points, but _EVERY_ time I try to restore to _ANY_ point it goes through all the motions, says it's making changes, but in the end posts a notice that nothing was changed.

Is the Restore Point system just a bogus mess that Microsoft needs to scrap?

(If this offends the sensitivities of the topic police, at least point me to a place to get an answer.)

JimL

[dr_st]

My experience has been that it's very rarely works right. I never use it and just turn it off on all my machines.

[JimL]

My experience has been that it's very rarely works right. I never use it and just turn it off on all my machines.

Do you have something simple you use in its place? (I consider Acronis, for example, to be horribly non-simple.)

JimL

[dr_st]

Sorry, Acronis is what I use.

[Norway Pad]

I use Clonezilla. It has always worked fine for me, I don't know if any of you have different experiences with this.

I always make an initial image of my machines with Windows installed, all service packs and updates applied, and drivers and system software installed. This is a basic image I can go back to if I need a clean install, or when I sell the machine. Then I tend to do one more image after the system is configured and I get major software like browsers, MS Office and other apps with a license tied to them installed. (Lately I have chosen to leave Antivirus software out of this image). This is an image I can go back to when I want to revert any change or fix a major issue, without going back to a clean install. I usually also make another image after a while if I see that too many applications have been installed or too many changes have been done since the last image.