Comments

1. Korn1699

   
   Posted on: August 06, 2008 at 3:49PM  

   I like the feature, although I have been having an issue with my system restore not working sometimes...  I dual boot Vista x64 Ultimate and Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop, but once in a while the boot sector gets erased or something...  It just tell me there is no bootable media, and has done this with 3 different drives.  I use Acronis, and recover the boot sector.  Vista thinks it is a new drive, and asks me to restart after it installs the "new" drive.  System restore doesn't work after that, unless I go to system restore through the welcome screen links, and turn it off for the old drive and on for the new one.  Once I create a new point it works, but it is annoying that I have to do that all the time...
2. dovella

   
   Posted on: August 06, 2008 at 4:50PM  

   Nice Brandon,
3. Brick

   
   Posted on: August 06, 2008 at 4:54PM  

   This feature is one of the best things about Vista over XP.  It's great being able to restore accidently deleted stuff and since it works at block level using the VSS, you can get back files that are usually opened (e.g. Outlook data files).

   It really makes the road warrior experience much safer.
4. chakkaradeep

   
   Posted on: August 06, 2008 at 5:02PM  

   This has been my favorite feature and I use it often along with the System Restore functionality (when problems occur ;) )
5. Islander

   
   Posted on: August 06, 2008 at 5:12PM  

   Indeed an amazing feature. But isn't it only available with Vista Ultimate, Business and Enterprise editions?
6. logic_earth

   
   Posted on: August 06, 2008 at 5:49PM  

   Previous Versions interface in not Available in Windows Vista Home. However, versions of your files are stilling being made because Shadow Copy service is on all versions.

   You can use a third-party application Shadow Explorer for versions of Vista that do not have an interface.

   http://www.shadowexplorer.com/
7. caywen

   
   Posted on: August 06, 2008 at 7:27PM  

   I had to turn it off because it was eating some 15GB on my 80GB HD. I found I was down to about 8GB free and wanted to free enough space for about 12GB for videos. I've since upgraded to a 250GB HD, but I fear turning it on and having it chew up 50GB of space.

   I much prefer to use a version control system to explicitly track versions of files that I actually care about. For me, using hosted SVN or CVS is way better since you can get your files on any machine anywhere.
8. chakkaradeep

   
   Posted on: August 07, 2008 at 6:17AM  

   @caywen - svn or cvs is totally different from these things. Regarding space, I dont see it eating up a huge space in my machine.
9. Korn1699

   
   Posted on: August 07, 2008 at 8:47AM  

   Is there a way to change the amount of space used for shadow copies?  I am assuming it uses a percent of the drive.  My problem on another computer is that I have two 300 GB VelociRaptor drives set up as RAID 0, but I am only using up about 100 GB, although the shadow copies are taking up 60 GB more.  I want to be able to do a backup to my external drive without having 60 extra GB it the file each time.
10. caywen

    
    Posted on: August 07, 2008 at 12:59PM  

    chakkaradeep,

    What is totally different about version control and previous versions? I understand the UE is different, but they both allow you to recover old versions. It's just that SVN is manual, but you get much more power over what you manually check-in.

    Also, seeing that it does not eat huge space on your machine, how about you lend me 15GB of space? :-)