Digital Home Thoughts: Windows System Restore Helps You Restore Your Windows System

"Windows System Restore is an awesome system recovery tool, and it's included with Windows for free. It's the ideal solution for rolling back bad drivers, fixing when buggy software breaks your PC, or simply rolling you back to a previous point in time. If you've still got a bad taste in your mouth from the lackluster XP version of System Restore, it's time to take a look at it again if you've upgraded to Windows 7 or Vista."

Lifehacker poo poos Windows XP's version of System Restore, though I have had fairly good experiences with it. Windows System Restore was probably the best thing to come out of Windows Millennium Edition, and it has come in handy more than once. I sort of imagine it a lot like a Recycle Bin for the Operating System itself. It is NOT a proper backup solution, but it is handy when it comes to recovering your system should it fall apart. Truthfully, short of viruses, malware and actual hardware failures, I'm finding OSes to be far more resilient these days. Still, having various ways to recover ones system is useful and practical. From file backups, to system images, to System Restore, all should play a part. Each of them has saved my bacon on more than one occasion.