Limits Of Using System Restore

[Rodge2]

My computer is playing up - booting painfully slowly and often loading programs slowly. I have tried system restore several times going back as far a few weeks ago, but it doesn't help. Is there any reason why I shouldn't try going back further, say a few months? Would there be any potential problems with this? The computer has only been playing up badly for about 2 weeks, although I can see now that it was probably in a down slide before that. Thanks.

[ST24]

I had an occasion recently to use system restore ; the best way to do it is with the installation disk - choose repair instead of install as it starts up. If it doesn't detect your Windows system then you may have to re-install. The repair section has enough tools to fix most fixable systems.

[jomifl]

Methyl, I opened msconfigsys.exe and without touching another key I lost my broadband connection and was unable to find a way to do a restore to a prior date.. Eventually I was able to do a restore from my backup portable hard drive. I lost a few files but only some recently acquired music tracks. I should have remembered IIWDFI. All working fine now:-)

[Rodge2]

Guys, I have started my computer this morning, having made no headway at all over the weekend in trying to solve the problem, and guess what? it has fixed itself and is staring very quickly. How has this happened? I only succeeded in removing one of the start up files, so it clearly wasn't that.