On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:38:14 -0500, amadeusmozart
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>I have been emailing back and forth with a microsoft support technician
>for the past few days, and they want to reinstall vista with a recovery
>disc and delete certain program files. They assure me it will not change
>any of my configurations or files, but I still want to be safe and
>create a full restore point.
That depends on what you mean by "recovery disk". If it's a Vista CD
that will only run a startup repair type of operation and re-install
system files, it's OK. If it's a typical (these days) hardware
manufacturer supplied disk, it may wipe the hard drive clean and start
you off fresh.
>I'm not computer savvy at all, and from
>what I have been reading about restore points, it seems like it will
>only save your user settings and configuration, but not files.
Correct.
>Long
>question short, is there any way to create a system restore and save it
>to a (big) disc to where it saves EVERYTHING on my computer as it is
>right now? Like as in if something goes wrong I can bring it completely
>back to what it was before?
See the other responses in this thread - and definitely find out what
sort of "recovery" disk you will be inserting before you do anything.
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