Re: System Retore Off?
These days, I'm not all that likely to make mistakes that could necessitate going back to a previous Restore Point/date. All programs are installed via Revo Uninstaller Pro. This makes a tracked log of a program's installation that Revo can use to thoroughly uninstall it if needs be. Also, programs might be trialled inside a sandbox (Sandboxie) to avoid installing them on the system proper. All in all, the system isn't likely to get corrupted enough to need restoring to a previous date.
However, what can happen is that others use my computer (family or friends stay sometimes). I tend not to put restrictions on their usage of it and let them install a program or two if that's what they want to do.
This can be done knowing that if something happens to the system, it will be possible to overwrite everything with a previously made disk image. I'll then know that just everything is clean again.
It would be the same if I was unlucky enough to pick up a virus. I wouldn't be happy with using a System Restore point or running a system that
hopefully had been cleaned of all vestiges of the infection. A twenty minute overwrite with a disk image is much more thorough I think.
Disk images could be thought of as a kind of ultimate System Restore I suppose. Easy enough to do and perhaps no need to have System Restore turned on as well.
Having said that, System Restore is good those who don't know about making and using disk images for putting a faulty/corrupted system to rights.