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I have Vista installed for … 6 months now. Normally around this period XP would have been a rotten corpse because of the heavy usage and frequent software installs/uninstalls. I cannot say that Vista was braver. I encountered until now two situations that were so hairy that I was at a feet from reinstalling the beast. Still I remembered on NICE feature of Vista: System Restore.

How it works?

Everytime you install a piece of software or unninstall one, or important changes are made to the system, Vista makes a backup of important system files (notable here are registry and other important files). This backup is stored and given a time stamp and relevant information about the reason for it’s creation. Unfortunately this consumes space (about 300mb per backup) but if you are carefull, you can select only relevant ones and delete the ones not deemed worthy. And of course one can create a restore point at any given time nomatter the status or reason.

Ok, ok, how does this help me?! Obviously, you will find yourself in the devious situation where the OS is behaving like a madman. What do you do? If you are a masterfull sorcerror and knowleadge-able in the inner workings of Windows you can repair it, using the dark arts and a lot of googling

Or, you can restore the system to a previous state, which you know it works. Yes, you might lose some stuff, but only information from the system state, all your data is still there.

There it is, now you can rest a little bit more easy, Vista gives you the tools needed for its survival and for keeping your hair from going gray…

Cheers

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