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automatic system recovery question

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I have a question I was gonna ask for a long time. should I turn off the automatic system recovery in WIN XP Pro or leave it as it is? it seems that whenever my system crashes ocasionally (when I'm playing around with OC and trying different higher settings), the recovery point I made before is gone and some spyware that I erased before is restored :evil:

it seems to work against me instead of giving the benefit of recovering the previous (no errors and stable) state of my computer. anyone?
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ASR is a waste of disk space IMO.....of course, when something goes wrong like that, I format my drive.....personally, the best practice, rather than relying on ASR, is to keep your important info backed up and an XP Pro CD handy......but, if you have a completely clean set-up, there's always drive cloning too if you want it to be the way you had it, settings and all. I used Acronis TrueImage 9.0 to take everything from my 10 GB drive that was in this Compaq to the 60 GB I have in it right now, and it was a perfect copy.....you can download the free version of this, but it won't let you make Restore CD's......yes you can make your own Restore CDs, did it once with Norton Ghost. Anyways, that's one of many you could use, just look around, you'll find some cool s**t along the way, lol :rolleyes:
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thanks. I thought it was pretty useless. does it also eat system resources (ASR)?
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not so much, I think it just eats up HDD space (you know that extra partition showing in Windows? That's the restore partition, and if you turn off restore in Windows, it should go away and give you back the space). There's a slider that adjusts the percentage of disk space used for the System Restore partition, but I choose to turn it off period, what a big waste by Micro$oft...anyways, the big thing is reliability, and back-ups coupled with consistent data maintenance (make sure it's spyware-free, not corrupted, etc) is the best way to do it IMHO.
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I always turn it off, it hurts more than it protects.
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