My take on SR..

-- Pro's --
Being an IT support tech I deal with a lot of staff who really abuse their systems, a system restore point makes life nice when they've downloaded the latest "Zwinky" or "Smiley Central" crap. Windows does make it nice to do a system restore, and they're able to do it on their own. (Usually I set my systems to do a restore point after I get my settings all put in) Then I disable the system from making any more, yes my staff may loose all their zwinkies, but my restore point isn't taking up a lot of resources, and I've got my point pretty much when it was new. The staff can do it on their own (They think they're being schneeky!) and then they just continue to jam along.

--Con's--
Does take up resources, people jump to doing it WAY Toooo soon, it's not gonna help if you lose a partition, or have bad sectors...and my biggest CON to SR....No Learning....you get a weird error, without "System Restore" and without formatting, you gotta do some research, look it up, and that's where a LOT of knowledge comes from, System Restore doesn't make you think... it's like learning how to use a calculator before you know even how to add...


I dunno mainly like to know what's happened so I can make sure it doesn't happen again, not just do the "Etch-a-Sketch" thing....just "UNDO!" and continue "Possibly" messing up again.