POST System Restore, System FUBAR'd?

I made a mistake yesterday installing some software (a LaTeX to Word
converter... I forgot to do something else first...) and decided to undo the
error by using System Restore - unfortunately (and not the 1st time it has
done it to me) after the Restore the system was wrecked: every Explorer
action was calling Office XP installation and every time I cancelled it it
restarted.

Most applications were gone (1st clue: shortcuts no longer referred to
anything, and - yep - sure enough there was nothing in the appropriate
program folder) and...

Well, I restored the system from a drive backup, but does anyone know why
System Restore should do this? Fortunately I had moved all Documents etc.
under my account to a separate partititon so only had to restore the C drive
for OS & apps (System Restore is only enabled for C but it wasn't like
that the last time SR clumped muddy boots over everything... (after which I
turned it off as I was out of disk space anyway - only turned it back on
after upgrading the laptop to a 250GB drive)

Thoughts?

Ta.

[System: Rock Xtreme CTX Pro, Core Duo, 2GB RAM, Vista HP SP1]

--
Julian I-Do-Stuff

Some Vista stuff, but mostly just Stuff at http://berossus,blogspot.com

Since SR doesn't affect your Program Files, don't expect a reply. System
Restore is also reversible. Try looking for something else.


"Julian" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I made a mistake yesterday installing some software (a LaTeX to Word
>converter... I forgot to do something else first...) and decided to undo
>the error by using System Restore - unfortunately (and not the 1st time it
>has done it to me) after the Restore the system was wrecked: every Explorer
>action was calling Office XP installation and every time I cancelled it it
>restarted.
>
> Most applications were gone (1st clue: shortcuts no longer referred to
> anything, and - yep - sure enough there was nothing in the appropriate
> program folder) and...
>
> Well, I restored the system from a drive backup, but does anyone know why
> System Restore should do this? Fortunately I had moved all Documents etc.
> under my account to a separate partititon so only had to restore the C
> drive for OS & apps (System Restore is only enabled for C but it wasn't
> like that the last time SR clumped muddy boots over everything... (after
> which I turned it off as I was out of disk space anyway - only turned it
> back on after upgrading the laptop to a 250GB drive)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ta.
>
> [System: Rock Xtreme CTX Pro, Core Duo, 2GB RAM, Vista HP SP1]
>
> --
> Julian I-Do-Stuff
>
> Some Vista stuff, but mostly just Stuff at http://berossus,blogspot.com