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Old July 30th 08, 06:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.apps
Ken Springer
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Default System restore

Does anyone know if there is a Windows 98 utility that does essentially the
same thing as XP's System Restore?

Thanks.
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Old July 30th 08, 06:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.apps
Gary S. Terhune[_2_]
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Default System restore

Is this before or after the fact? Are you just asking out of curiosity or do
you have a problem?

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"Ken Springer" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know if there is a Windows 98 utility that does essentially
the
same thing as XP's System Restore?

Thanks.



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Old July 30th 08, 06:56 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.apps
Steve Winograd
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Default System restore

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:00:03 -0700, Ken Springer
wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a Windows 98 utility that does essentially the
same thing as XP's System Restore?

Thanks.


Windows 98 doesn't have a built-in System Restore function. That
first appeared in Windows Me.
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Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

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Old July 30th 08, 02:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.apps
Ken Springer
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Default System restore


Hi, Gary,

You can call this preventative maintenance. LOL Or, more accurately, a
method to keep me from having to completely reinstall everything on the Old
but Reliable Dell.

It finally got so bad, I had to reinstall Win98. Which means a lot of
software to reinstall. With this NOT being the first time I've had to do
this, I've been using Norton Ghost and making image backups of the boot
partition when the next piece of software gets installed and I'm sure
everything is working right. There's already been a couple of times when
things have gone wrong, and I've had to use one of those Ghost images to get
back where I was.

After finally learning what System Restore does in XP, it occurred to me
that if something similar existed in Win98 I could cut back on the Ghost
image backup. Not completely, as I suspect there's nothing to prevent the
restore points and info from getting scrambled. :-)

Thanks.

Ken

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Is this before or after the fact? Are you just asking out of curiosity or do
you have a problem?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Ken Springer" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know if there is a Windows 98 utility that does essentially
the
same thing as XP's System Restore?

Thanks.




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Old July 30th 08, 02:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.apps
Ken Springer
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Posts: 3
Default System restore

Hi, Steve,

Thanks for the Win98 info regarding some kind of System Restore. I think
I'll Google the question and see if someone created such an animal after the
fact. I've got a CD of miscellaneous Win98 utilities, but I've never really
looked at it.

Not to sound like a whiner, but have you had a chance to look at my Ping
message in the XP Security and administration newsgroup?

Ken

"Steve Winograd" wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:00:03 -0700, Ken Springer
wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a Windows 98 utility that does essentially the
same thing as XP's System Restore?

Thanks.


Windows 98 doesn't have a built-in System Restore function. That
first appeared in Windows Me.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

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Old July 30th 08, 06:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.apps
Gary S. Terhune[_2_]
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Default System restore

There is no such thing. Backups, imaging, etc., yes, but anything resembling
System Restore.... The closest thing is Scanreg /restore, and that isn't
even close to System Restore.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Ken Springer" wrote in message
...

Hi, Gary,

You can call this preventative maintenance. LOL Or, more accurately,
a
method to keep me from having to completely reinstall everything on the
Old
but Reliable Dell.

It finally got so bad, I had to reinstall Win98. Which means a lot of
software to reinstall. With this NOT being the first time I've had to do
this, I've been using Norton Ghost and making image backups of the boot
partition when the next piece of software gets installed and I'm sure
everything is working right. There's already been a couple of times when
things have gone wrong, and I've had to use one of those Ghost images to
get
back where I was.

After finally learning what System Restore does in XP, it occurred to me
that if something similar existed in Win98 I could cut back on the Ghost
image backup. Not completely, as I suspect there's nothing to prevent the
restore points and info from getting scrambled. :-)

Thanks.

Ken

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Is this before or after the fact? Are you just asking out of curiosity or
do
you have a problem?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Ken Springer" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know if there is a Windows 98 utility that does essentially
the
same thing as XP's System Restore?

Thanks.






  #7  
Old July 31st 08, 11:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.apps
Steve Winograd
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 75
Default System restore

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:07:00 -0700, Ken Springer
wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a Windows 98 utility that does essentially the
same thing as XP's System Restore?

Thanks.


Windows 98 doesn't have a built-in System Restore function. That
first appeared in Windows Me.


Hi, Steve,

Thanks for the Win98 info regarding some kind of System Restore. I think
I'll Google the question and see if someone created such an animal after the
fact. I've got a CD of miscellaneous Win98 utilities, but I've never really
looked at it.

Not to sound like a whiner, but have you had a chance to look at my Ping
message in the XP Security and administration newsgroup?

Ken


Hi, Ken. I'm sorry, but I don't read the XP Security and
administration newsgroup, and I haven't seen your message. Your
previous messages were in the XP networking newsgroup, and that's
where I've been looking.

I just looked in microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin, and I
don't see anything from you. Please tell me the date that you posted
and the subject header of the message. Or give a link to the message
in Google groups.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
 




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