no system restore (W2K)

[kjavds]

Why does my wife's Toshiba laptop, running W2K Pro SP4, have no System Restore? It's nowhere that I can find, certainly not at its usual haunt under System Tools -- or anywhere.

-KJS

[josefz]

Have you read <a target="_blank" href=http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/community/centers/management/sysrestore_faq.mspx> Which versions of Windows features System Restore</a>?

[kjavds]

Thanks for that info!

I've needed System Restore only a couple of times in 5 years under my WME. And I AM disappointed that W2K doesn't have it! I don't really comprehend MS's rationale in dumping it so. It was extremely appreciated (under WME) on those few rare occasions when a program or device driver wreaked havoc on my system's operability.

-KS

[BertImmenschuh]

"And I AM disappointed that W2K doesn't have it! I don't really comprehend MS's rationale in dumping it so."

Please bear in mind that WinME came out several months AFTER Win2000, one of the new features was the System Restore, replaced SFC/System File Checker of Win98/98SE.

Win98 came out in mid-'98, Win98SE in late '99, WinME in mid-2000, WinNT 4 in '96 and Win2000 Pro in early 2000.

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[kjavds]

Ah, of course.. and I thought WME preceeded W2K.. mostly because Windows 98/ME are so often categorized together (especially in re compatibility issues) with that slash between, as if WME were somehow W98's closest kin.

-KS

[BertImmenschuh]

WinME is Win98's closest relative. What happened from a practical standpoint is that when Win2000 was released for primarily business users, the folks on Win9x and vendors wanted something new also. The result was a product that earned the reputation of being the worst or second worst Operating System put out by Microsoft, the other being MS-DOS 4.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue>
<font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>

[Brf]

Actually, Microsoft was planning on releasing parallel OS's, an NT one for business and a 9x one for home for a couple more years... but while they were working on XP it became too much trouble... so they abandoned the 9x one after ME, and came up with XP-Home instead.