The sad irony of a system robust enough to enable a system restore feature is the fact that you need it. For all the crazy-ass freebie plug-ins I install and uninstall on my DAW, I have never needed to reestore to a point before one of those installs. Then I installed the official Microsoft upgrade to Windows.

I don’t have the most powerful DAW in the world and the combination of Live, sfz+ (sound font loader), ns7_kit drum sound fonts and Waves plugins had been straining my 3 year old system already. But installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 required enough extra memory to put my system over the edge. I could no longer open projects in Live without completely crashing my system.

If you do have the pang to upgrade then get more memory and enable the System Restore feature before you install SP2. Or get a Mac.