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Enhance / protect your XP installation
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Part II
In the last Tip we installed
the Recovery Console, to have additional options to awake an
dead system. But - that's not all you have to do to be on the
safe side of windows / life.
One of the most problems - most know it all: You got a new nice
proggy - let's install it. Downloaded, installed, done and you
played a while with it, everything seems fine. Late in the
night - may be early in the morning as well, you decide to
shutdown your PC, and go to bed. Next time you powered on your
PC, you got mystic messages, apps refuse to start and all the
enjoying stuff you know well from previous times.
Yes, you did something harmful to your system. But- no problem
you think yourself, just kill that proggy you installed lastly:
thought and done. But the problems are still there as you
encounter quite quickly.
Now what?
If you had frozen the systemstate, or an backup, you would be
able to revert to your functional system pretty quickly, but
you had not. So next time before you install an new app,
you do:
Walk through menu
- menubar
- start
- all programs
- accessories
- systemtools
and carefully move your mousepointer to System Restore
Did you ever see it? Ok, fire up this proggy and get inspired
from the options you have here. *grin*
Actual only two options, as you might not have an restore
point, but now you can create one.
Create an restore point, you can revert to later.
Costs only some diskspace and a few seconds for you in case of
troubles. Once a restorepoint gets activated / used, it will
not be any longer in the list and anything installed afterwards
-- has gone.
But you have a defined state you can rebuild your system from
without spending hours ...
Before beginning to install the missing crap, it's a good idea,
to immediately creating a new system state.
Although XP will not easily let you overwrite essential
systemfiles, a registry setting or an driver might cause you
trouble too.
PS: do not forget to look on the left side of that window for
System Restore Settings and see what's there!
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