15-20% performance increase by turning system restore off?

Really?
Who has system restore disabled? Who dosent? Worth it?
Currently I have system restore enabled but set my shadow storage system restore file to a max of 300MB so I will only have a max of 3 restores at a time instead of wasting GB's of HD space. But its interesting to read that this was voted the "best" Vista tweak in terms of freeing up performance....Really? Im skeptical

 

I have mine off, but only because i dont want to waste cell writes on my SSD. Havent noticed a performance increase though

 

Kamin you could set your restore file to something small like 2-500MB?

 

Its not really worth it to me. I keep all of my data on my Storage drive and from dead until a fully usable OS takes me about 1 hour (with all programs and games installed)

 

Kamin_majere, what program do you use to create a backup like that which only takes an hour to re-install w/ all your programs? Thats a good idea.


Thanks!

 

I dont use anything.

But installing an OS and moving ISO files / double clicking exe files over to my SSD takes no time at all.

I keep basically everything in my storage drive in a folder that is dedicated to reinstalling my OS. It houses all of my set up files for programs and ISO files of the games i own (i only own like 8 games and i dont like scratching the disks) and my back up of my firefox Bookmarks folder.

So from a complete crash to up and running like nothing ever happened takes me about an hour. It takes longer to install windows through the slow Optical Drive than anything else. If there was something faster than that (a USB drive maybe) i think i'd start using that instead of DVD

 

i use acronis home and can have it back identically to how i had it when i made the image in like 30 mins from format to everything installed. it works great i can only imagine how fast it would be on your sdd like 10 mins?

 

Second the recommendation of Acronis... very solid and workable program. And it is possible to do the restore direct from a flash drive quite easily. Very handy. Whenever I either get a new system, or move to a new OS, I create the backup image with it, post-driver and "critical" programs, and then if I do manage to screw anything up - it really is a quick procedure to get everything restored.

 

I guess i'll have to give acronis a try. Is it a direct copy (i.e the same size and everything) or is it compressed somehow?

Do you have to re-register everything in your back up image?

 

Well, I know it does have some sort of compression options... but I've never really explored that too much.

Hmmm.... not completely sure what you're referring to by 're-registering', but the typical procedure would be to backup your 'clean' build to the acronis image, and then when doing the restore, it'll reconstruct it exactly to the prior state.

 

He means if you have to reactivate software for example Adobe products usually require reactivation. I'm sure he's also curious if you have to reactivate Windows.

I think most of this will depend on the software you are using, different versions of Windows may have different results and different software will also vary the activation results.

 

Ah ok, yeah that was my biggest question.

I hate reactivating programs and games and all that stuff then having to reregister it all... thats the biggest pain in the butt

 

Ahhh -- gotcha. As long as the actual 'hardware' doesn't really change, it shouldn't have to... I know I have restored Vista to brand new drives (completely different brands / types) and it hasn't had issues or forced reactivations of anything... so I suspect not so much of an issue. But the times I have done it, the REST of the gear has been the same...