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Creating A Windows XP Recovery Console CD Image

Sooner or later, every XP user faces the moment when he or she needs to access a system in a low-level maintenance mode to fix some kind of problem with the operating system itself. Perhaps the system ...
Ars Technica

here's a recovery trick (xp recovery console + system restore)

I was helping a friend with a dead XP Home SP2 machine today. The machine would get to the end of the initial XP logo screen, but die with a blue-screen complaining about a corrupted SOFTWARE registry ...
InfoWorld

System Restore on Windows XP and Vista

One of the first things I normally do when I set up a computer with Windows XP, right after I install anti-virus and anti-spyware programs, is to configure Internet Explorer (IE) and System Restore ...
Ars Technica

System Restore in Win XP - good or bad?

I'd like to hear your perceived advantages and disadvantages to using Win XP's System Restore. I work for a small college and System Restore is off on our campus computers. We run Win XP Pro. I do ...