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Lost confidence in system restore
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and some in Windows 7.
I went to install IE9 last night. Before hand I made an image backup, restore point, and ran sfc /verifyonly to make sure all was well.
I installed IE9 and played around with it for a little bit. My overall system performance seemed lower and IE9 didn't do anything for me over Firefox or Chrome, so I decided to roll back on the install. I did this by restoring to the point before the install, which seemed to go fine. I then did an sfc /verifyonly and it found integrity violations! This is the second time this happened to me. The first was more complex circumstances so I attributed it to that. this time however was rolling back on a simple install.
Well it is good I made the image backup and that mechanism seems to work well. I have restored from the image. Ran sfc/verifyonly after the restore and it found no integrity violations.
So I guess I can't trust system restore for much of anything.
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