Sytem Restore and its' effects.

If this should be moved to somewhere else please feel free to do so.

Being bored and needed something to do I messed with SR.

Alias. I like to live dangerously.

And I had surmised what was happening. And I had removed a couple of programs. I also think that by this type of stuff remaning in the reg slows it down at boot up because it is looking for stuff that is not there.

1-I manually created a RP and NAMED it "B4 Reg Clean. "
2-Ran RegSeeker It found 20-25 so called bad entries in the Reg. So much for trusting the programs un-install. I have not seen one yet that gets everything. Especially if the program is installed to other than the default folder.
4-Let RegSeeker remove them.
5-Restarted the machine.
6-Ran RegSeeker again and it found nothing.
7-Manually made another RP and named it "After Reg.Clean. "
8-Ran SR and restored the "B4 Reg Clean. "
9-Ran Rekseeker again and guess what. Just about everything I had removed was back in place.
10-Startover time.

As of this moment I only have one RP. " After Reg Clean. "

Now, unless I am way off my rocker, this fortifies my theory about a user needing to take control/watch of the RPs. And when changes are made and all is found to be OK the old ones should go bye-bye.

Also for Win98 Users.
The RP000.cab ( reg backups ) files that it puts in the C:\Window\Sysbckup folder can create the same problem. ( been there a couple of times before I realized it. )

BillyBob

 

Hey BillyBob, if your realy bored, get drive imaging software and play with that. I know you have an OS only partition, so made to order.

I use SR as you know, but, drive imaging saved my behind more than a few times. I run a process control app which is still beta, and the new versions keep coming. One version froze my system between the desktop wall paper and apps showing up in the taskbar. SR at that point was useless.

Regards - Charles

 

You expected SR to do what it did didn't you?

Yes Steve. I did. But I have also had cases where what I expected and what really happend were two different things.

I believe you are also saying that things went right.

BillyBob

 

Thanks Charles for the idea. I have thought about that. But right now I am in no shape mentally or physically to mess with anything new.

I really should not be messing around in here anyway. But I enjoy it too much and do not have much else to do.

And I also have STRONG need to have you folks help me out to make sure what I am doing is right ( not left ). And so that I can explain better to my Wife so she can help me out if needed.

BillyBob