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Its worked fine for me so far, when customers screw something up, I tell them over the phone how to restore, worked every time so far (altho i am sure if it is a really serious problem it may not)so far its been printer software problems or a software installation gone bad, etc... i even did it at home after windows update to IE5.5sp1 blew things up, tried the restore worked perfect. I always set a restore point right before I do anything major now so I can go back to one I know is good.
I actually like the system restore function. I've used it a handful of times with great success.
The only bad thing about system restore is that it can't be accessed if Windows won't load. Thats when you need to restore the system most!!!! What we need is a way to access system restore from a boot disk. :rolleyes:
I've noticed that Systen Resote works better when you give it more HD space to use. If you use the minimum (200MB) it seems to keep what it backs up to a bare minimum (reg files) but if you let it go nuts and eat away your HD space, it will do wonders!
Also makeing many restore points helps also.
I have had very good results from using System Restore. I have 2 computers, each running Windows ME. On one of them I installed the wrong video driver with the result that I couldn't get back to the Desktop. I was forced to go into Safe Mode and activate System Restore.I'm glad to say that it worked perfectly and I was able to change to the correct driver.
A friend of mine used ME (I later convinced him to upgrade to 2000)...he was having a problem where his system wouldn't boot. We tried everything, finally we just decided to go into safe mode and choose System Restore, and it fixed the problem instantly.