{"id":8679,"date":"2007-03-12T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/12\/windows-xp-restore-points\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:10","slug":"windows-xp-restore-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/12\/windows-xp-restore-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP Restore Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows XP&#8217;s restore points have saved me loads of time in troubleshooting problems with my Dad&#8217;s computer. Rolled the thing back to when I last had it and it&#8217;s fine&#8230; I&#8217;m thinking the problem is with an old version of Printmaster Deluxe which my Dad installed. (It is old enough that it didn&#8217;t show in Add \/ Remove Programs.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking that it overwrote some Windows files somehow, and Windows File Protection, for some reason, didn&#8217;t do its thing. That somehow messed up the machine, it started running slow, etc. I&#8217;ll test this tomorrow (or whenever I return the machine) by setting a restore point, installing the questionable app, inspecting things, then rolling back to the previous point if needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows XP&#8217;s restore points have saved me loads of time in troubleshooting problems with my Dad&#8217;s computer. Rolled the thing back to when I last had it and it&#8217;s fine&#8230; I&#8217;m thinking the problem is with an old version of Printmaster Deluxe which my Dad installed. (It is old enough that it didn&#8217;t show in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12951,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions\/12951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}