To Exclude Specific Folder From System Restore?
Feb 12, 2010How do I exclude a specific folder from system restore? The solution mentioned here is wrong. http://www.tweakxp.com/article37472.aspx
That excludes the file from NTBackup.
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Exclude Specific Folders From System Backup
Aug 12, 2002When using system restore to back up your data, you might want to make sure that you are not wasting backup space by saving useless folders that may include temp file or other non-necessary files. To exclude folders, follow the directions below.
1) Open Regedit and navigate to HKEY_Local_MachineSystemCurrentControlSetControlBackupRestoreFilesNotTobackup2) Choose Edit, new, multi-string value3) Give a descriptive name4) Double-click the value and input the full folder path you wish to exclude and click OKSystem restore will no longer monitor this folder and backups will not be made of the files contained in it.
System Restore - Specific Reason Of Restoring
Feb 24, 2006My brother just had a tech guy come to his house to fix a problem he was having with his email.Unrelated to that issue The tech guy recommended not using system restore My brother does not remember the specific reason for this but thought the tech guy said you can't trust system restore as it could lose things and make matters worse
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Exclude Rocket Dock Program From Being Minimized
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1)Is there a better way to change this apart from "msconfig" ?
2) How can i avoid that message that mscofig gives?
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Moved My Picture-folder Into The Folder Of Doom -restore?
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Mar 9, 2008I have a 3Ghz AMD with 1Gb RAM, 160Gb HDD, Win XP SP2 installed. The HDD is divided into 3 partitions - OS, Documents and Program. She has a network with her children's computers (4!) but whilst they can ping each other, they are not actually networked to each other.
I installed Nero 6. Burning and Cyberlink DVD on to her computer. Both were installed on the Program partition. At that point, all her documents and images were in the "My Documents" folder on the Documents partition and were all visible and working. Within the My Documents folder was a folder called "My Documents 1" which was all the stuff she had brought over from her old HDD but not yet sorted and merged with her current computer.
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System Restore - Uses System Restore - Point Prior To Running Virus
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to a system restore point prior to running the virus, is that computer still
infected?Nocturnal http://www.spywaretalk.org
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Dec 24, 2005I'm running Windows Xp porfessional. I was wondering if its possible to have system restore create a restore piont once a day automaticlly?
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