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Windows Vista System Restore Overwrites Documents

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by boutells, 2007/11/28.

  1. 2007/11/28
    boutells

    boutells Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Whenever I do a system restore, my organizer gets overwritten with the version that was active at the restore point. I have moved the data file to a subfolder of documents but it still gets overwritten.

    Anyone have any suggestions?
     
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  2. 2007/11/28
    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    What do you mean by "my organizer? "
    Did you upgrade it again and do you think you'll need to restore agian?
     
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    boutells

    boutells Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    System Restore

    I use Lotus Organizer (I know it is old but I like it). The date file for that programme, which I now have store in a subfolder to Documents, gets overwritten after a system restore. I thought a system restore was suppsed to ignore documents when it restored.
     
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  5. 2007/11/29
    Jaredvcxz

    Jaredvcxz Banned

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    No, there could be viruses and stuff so it restore to factory preset, I think...
     
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    charlesvar

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    Hello Jaredvcxz,

    No, Vista's SR restores back to a restore point it created (approx every 24 hrs.) or to a manual one created by the user. The point to restore to is a User choice.

    I think you're confusing Vista's System restore with an OEM Restore back to Factory Image, either from discs or a "hidden" partition,
     
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