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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | "System Restore"!!!
DVA8037
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on November 01 2009
50 State Club
Globetrotter
US Coastal Club
DVA Fleet Master
US Mountaineer Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Long Beach 1500 Club
Seven Millennium Club
Five Million Mile Club

"If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going"
Rosedale, NY USA

7,262 legs, 14,379.1 hours
7,255 legs, 14,360.4 hours ACARS
Posted onPost created on December 28 2017 10:09 ET by Eric Haack
I hope, but can’t find, if someone who knows more about this than me has posted something about “System Restore”?!?

I can’t stress enough the value of System Restore with a Windows-based operating system.

You can work around numerous problems with this and sometimes get yourself out of trouble if something got into your computer.

For me, something happened with ACARS and my system wouldn’t acknowledge it no matter what I did, no matter what version I loaded from 4.955 right up to 4.972 or better known as Build 116 thru 122.

By going back through system restore (a point of time you create) I went back to December 19th when all was working fine.
That fixed the ACARS problem when I couldn’t.

Windows System Restore
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17127/windows-back-up-restore#1TC=windows-7

Apple Time Machine
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250

It’s important to do any scans you can to be sure your computer is free and clear of any problems before creating a restore point. Defrag too.
You can also have restore points created automatically at times you designate.
This all depends on your OS and computer.
I’ll create a restore point every two weeks or so, especially if all is fine.
File back-up is always essential, but MS System Restore leaves your downloaded pictures, music, documents etc. alone, just re-tweaks the operating system and registry adjustments.

Any thoughts?




DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV

Joined on January 30 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Tri-Jet Triumph
US Coastal Club
Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
US Mountaineer Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,287 legs, 1,796.9 hours
841 legs, 1,048.5 hours online
1,269 legs, 1,774.9 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours
Posted onPost created on December 28 2017 10:18 ET by Andrew Vane
Great tip Eric! cool I will be doing this sometime this weekend and regularly from here on out.


DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Milford, NH

375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs, 604.5 hours online
374 legs, 618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs, 51.4 hours event
Posted onPost created on December 28 2017 11:09 ET by Sean Zarella
its also good to do a system image backup and have a second harddrive handy to install to.

Thats what I did when my main system went down, dead HDD, so installed a new drive and installed base windows, then used restore to install the saved image and back in business.



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