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Re: [Vista] Vista System Restore??
1. System Restore is system wide. Not to an individual account.
2. Nothing in the Users profile is backed up or restored by using System Restore, with the exception of the user profile portion of the registry -- NTUSER.DAT
So most of your Desktop items, etc. are not covered by System Restore at all, other than cases where they are reflected by a registry entry in the hives -- as that is all that is backed up and all that is restored in terms of any user profile.
3. As to the number of restore points, these are based on the amount of disk space allocated; there is an aging factor but it is by default quite high. Vista is different from XP in the sense that it uses the disk space allocation for Volume Shadow Copies, the Previous Version information, as well as System Restore Points. If you want more System Restore Points, increase the VSS directory space allocation.
All About System Restore in Vista
»bertk.mvps.org/html/vista.html
(Highlight the second tab at the top to see the subsections.)
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