earlier DEC experience with Cutler's VMS". So why not implement it as simple and elegant as it was in VMS days? This is not to say that everything from the past is better. All I'm saying is that it should be in the front end and visible to the user without the need to point and click lots of screens. Great article! One question -- some government sites have the restore setting turned off in group policy, the reasoning is that a virus or trojan may be placed in the restore area or a virus or trojan embeded into a user file will be saved to the restore area and be deployed with the file or system is restored to a previous version. We have Endpoint running and I would expect that to pick up virus'sand trojans before they could embed themselves. Does Endpoint or other security software look into the recovery directory? I have yet to find any documentation showing a single virus or trojan deployed on a system from the recovery area. Are there any cases? Excellent tutorial. Yet, I only use restore points for restoring the operating system, not for restoring documents. For that purpose I use Acronis Nonstop Backup (part of Acronis True Image 2011). This application has a timeline which enables you to restore earlier versions of documents you have been working on. I find that much more convenient to use in case that I have to restore documents that I accidently overwrote or deleted.