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caddickj
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 Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:04 am Post subject: XP system restore |
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What does System Restore do? I thought it was basically a roll-back of the registry, but a friend of mine just did it and some programs he had deleted seemed to reappear.
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The Boy Hope
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:22 am Post subject: |
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You can get a good idea of what it does by checking the file list - %windir%\system32\restore\FileList.xml
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caddickj
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:58 am Post subject: |
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okay.... that gives me a very vague idea, but to paraphrase Austin Powers "XML isn't my bag, baby."
I'm having a hard time deciphering what I'm looking at.
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The Boy Hope
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:34 am Post subject: |
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Well, there's a Files section with Include and Exclude sections under that. Same for Directories. And there's a section for included file extensions after that.
HTH.
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caddickj
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:48 am Post subject: |
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Okay. Let's take the Files section for example.
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<FILES>
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<Exclude>
<REC>%windir%\system.ini</REC>
<REC>%windir%\tasks\desktop.ini</REC>
<REC>%windir%\win.ini</REC>
<REC>*:\AUTOEXEC.BAT</REC>
<REC>*:\CONFIG.MSI</REC>
<REC>*:\CONFIG.SYS</REC>
</Exclude>
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<Include>
<REC>c:\placeholder\ph.dll</REC>
</Include>
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That seems bass-ackwards to me. Why include a placeholder, which I assume is nothing, and exclude the things that look important?
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caddickj
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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Found this on the MSDN site:
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* Registry
* Profiles (local only—roaming user profiles not impacted by restore)
* COM+ DB
* WFP.dll cache
* WMI DB
* IIS Metabase
* Files with extensions listed in the portion of the Monitored File Extensions list in the System Restore section of the Platform SDK
Not Restored
* DRM settings
* SAM hives (does not restore passwords)
* WPA settings (Windows authentication information is not restored)
* Specific directories/files listed in the Monitored File Extensions list in the System Restore section of the Platform SDK
* Any file with an extension not listed as in the Monitored File Extensions list in the System Restore section of the Platform SDK
* Items listed in both Filesnottobackup and KeysnottoRestore (hklm->system->controlset001->control->backuprestore->filesnottobackup and keysnottorestore)
* User-created data stored in the user profile
* Contents of redirected folders
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the satirist
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Those files really aren't very important for XP. Remember, it's an NT kernel, not a 9x kernel. It may read those files, but I don't think it'll cause trouble if they disappear. Also, they can be modified by applications, and you don't want those changes automatically overwritten.
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jackthomas
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| Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:22 pm Post subject: need to know |
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I am running windows xp sp3 on a toshiba a70 laptop.
My onboard touch pad has stopped working and I can't do a safe start.
Any ideas on these two problems. |
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