> -----Original Message----- > From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:15 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Why Vista makes me want to jump off the roof... > > You know I never fully understoood how System Restore works. > > So you install that new driver...and then install say three programs > before realising that the new driver is a problem. > > So you then go and do a System Restore to roll back the system to > before you installed that driver. > > What happens to the three programs that you installed after the > driver? What if they copied a file or two to the system directory or > they made registry entries?
My (probably flawed) understanding is that system-changes made by the programs (registry entries, dlls added/changed to system folders, system preferences, etc) will all be rolled back - this will probably kill the apps. However I don't believe that app folders themselves will be touched (you might have personal data in there). To eliminate the apps completely you would have to delete the folders. Reinstalling would set things back to the way to the way they were. I could be wrong, but that's the way I understand it - System Restore guards what it considers "system" resources, not individual application resources. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:235891 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
