On 2020-05-31 at 08:33, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, May 31, 2020 07:39:13 AM Joe wrote: > >> The Windows reset option is reinstallation, and always has been. >> For the last few versions, the installation medium is a partition >> on the hard drive, and it can be invoked from within Windows or >> from a BIOS startup key. > > From the peanut gallery: there is (or was?) that other function, not > sure of the name (maybe including a phrase (or concept) like "go > back"), by which you could take a snapshot of your system and then > revert to that condition later. > > I never used it (I was gone from Windows before it came along), I > don't know the correct name (or if it changed over the years), > whether it still exists, and whether it affected the system programs, > the user's data files, or both (or maybe it was selective).
You're probably talking about "System Restore". Reverting to an earlier system state that way doesn't affect user data files, although I believe it can affect system configuration settings (e.g., file-type associations). I think it can affect installed programs in some cases, but not all. It definitely affects Windows updates, driver changes, et cetera. It's never been the most reliable feature, but there are definitely scenarios in which it's nice to have around as an option, although the question of whether it's worth the disk-space (etc.) cost is one on which as far as I can tell the jury is still out. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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