System restore in Win Me is a scaled-down detuned Goback without all the custom features.  How big the Gobackio.bin file is depends upon how long you want to keep files.  If you do a custom install of Goback you can pick how big this file is.  On my 40 gig drive I chose to give it 500 Mb, which allows me to revert the drive as far back as 5 days.  When I do installs of new software I note the time of the install, and usually let the computer sit idle for several minutes before in order to create a system safe point to which I can revert if the software sucks.  I love Goback, and credit it with saving my butt from major reformat/reinstalls of the OS at least half a dozen times, and with recovering from unknown problems more times than I can count.  It also has a file recovery feature that allows you to search for a deleted file, plus a feature that allows you to create a virtual drive.  Best piece of software I've ever owned.



>Ian;
>I understand your concept, but you are overlooking the fact that most
>modern windows apps install "common" files and .dll files in the windows
>directory so you would lose these when you deltree/re-install windows.
>You would have to reinstall most of the apps anyway.
>As far as the registry - Scanreg/restore would restore it,
>but you still would still be missing some necessary files.
>I use Goback by Roxio  on my win2k machine and can restore it to a previous
>condition.
>windows ME and XP have this (system restore) built in and it works pretty
>well.
>They do this by building a .BIN file containing compressed copy of all the
>files on the harddrive.
>The down side is it takes quite a large file to store this.
>The gobackio.bin file on my 45 gig C drive is  4,096,000 KB
>

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