Solved How much disk space is needed for System Restore?

[kado897]

The tutorials section was what drew me when I got 7 first.

 

[2harts4ever]

WOW! That (Tutorials) is a gold-mine! I will check that out in earnest!
Thanks ...

 

[whs]

20% of that big drive is too much. Anything between 10 and 20GB would be ample. Restore points take up to 1GB per shot, but they can be smaller depending what you have on C:

Also I suggest to put your user data on a seperate partition and give that 5GB for the restore points. Is handy if you lost a file and want to retrieve it. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/132087-shadowexplorer-recover-lost-files-folders.html

Shadow explorer is good but you don't need it. Just use Windows built in previous versions which can be found in the properties dialogue..

True, provided it works and that you want the version last stored. But if you want to go back a couple of weeks, you can get there only with Shadow Explorer. That is why I prefer SE - I see what I am doing.

 

[kado897]

As with Shadow Explorer you can go back as far as you have valid RPs.

 

[maxseven]

But if you want to go back a couple of weeks, you can get there only with Shadow Explorer.

No, you can get there with RPs also, but it takes EVERYTHING "back there" whereas Shadow Explorer does not. It appears that SE allows you to look-into any of your RPs and pick/choose specific files you might wish to recover. I'm going to try it myself, thanks whs.

 

[kado897]

But if you want to go back a couple of weeks, you can get there only with Shadow Explorer.

No, you can get there with RPs also, but it takes EVERYTHING "back there" whereas Shadow Explorer does not. It appears that SE allows you to look-into any of your RPs and pick/choose specific files you might wish to recover. I'm going to try it myself, thanks whs.

If you open the Previous Version of a folder you have access to it all in Windows Explorer.

 

[maxseven]

If you open the Previous Version of a folder you have access to it all in Windows Explorer.

My goodness, I had no idea about that feature of W7, at least not for folders/files! Proving once again "you learn something new every day!" thank you!!!

Is there an easy way to access old Registry entries in Shadow Copies? NM, I found a link to something that I should be able to follow:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/31136/how-to-restore-previous-versions-of-the-registry-in-windows-7/

 

[whs]

Thanks guys, I got it. Education never stops, LOL.

 

[kado897]

If you open the Previous Version of a folder you have access to it all in Windows Explorer.

My goodness, I had no idea about that feature of W7, at least not for folders/files! Proving once again "you learn something new every day!" thank you!!!

Is there an easy way to access old Registry entries in Shadow Copies? NM, I found a link to something that I should be able to follow:

How to Restore Previous Versions of the Registry in Windows 7 - How-To Geek

I didn't know that but having seen it it is obvious. We learn something new every day.

 

[maxseven]

I didn't know that but having seen it it is obvious. We learn something new every day.

Funny you would post about this today--I was having a problem with a program I had to reinstall, and was thinking "I'll BET the registry settings got blown away". Once I found the day-it-last-worked, I used the "Previous Versions" feature of W7 to find the old C:\Users\Max\ntuser.dat hive, copy it out and mount it with Regedit, and use regedit to export its key, then just double-clicked on it and all is well again.

Finding this makes System Restore so much more useful--rather than agonizing over whether to revert to a month-old Restore Point (all all that implies) I could just fix my specific problem using the Previous Versions method.

You are my hero today, thanks again!

 

[kado897]

As with anything to do with the registry you need to know what you are doing and to backup first but yes it sounds useful.

 

[Lauriellen]

I have most of my data on an external drive M: and have turned on system protection for that drive. I have also set up a scheduled task to make sure I have at least one RP per day.

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If you right click on a folder or file and open properties. On the Previous versions tab you get a list of dates for which previous versions exist.

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If you open one of these for a folder it opens in explorer from where you can access and copy any file you chose or the complete folder if you wish. It gives the state of that folder when the RP was taken.

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Sorry, this is a super-old thread and my reply is unrelated (although the thread was helpful, as I'm having problems upgrading to Windows 10 and reverted back to Windows 7 and noticed I have no restore points, so I'm configuring System Restore), but I just wanted to say that your list of books is very cool. I just bought my brother a big bag of secondhand books at two stores across the street from each other in Bemidji, Minn., (Roy's Comics and Games; Books N More) and the latter store was not very organized but had about a dozen Andre Norton books at 50 cents each. The comic store books I bought were between 25 cents and $1.50. Gotta love used bookstores.

Laurie

 

[whs]

I would not rely on system restore. That can be very volatile. It is better to make a couple of images if you ever want to go back in time.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html?ltr=I