Vista: Restore points

[NeoStarO1]

hi I got a question but first why am I asking it.

Today me and my fellow worker at church was using my computer to deal with a video that we need for church.

She installed this program(s) to convert this one file because that is what the tech guy told her to do. Once I got behind her on my computer I was like geez man you can't just click your way through the installs on my computer. You didn't untick all the garbage options and now I got to uninstall them.

She said, im sorry.

To late now so this leads me to my question.

I know that uninstalling programs often leave garbage behind in your registry.

Can i use a restore point like from yesterday to put my laptop back to the state it was in yesterday rather than uninstalling things one by one in the control panel.(provide I save all files I been working on today onto disk)

The package thingy she was told to install, installed 18 different programs and subprograms plus garbage.

So I am wondering if I can restore it but im not sure if I have a restore file point from yesterday and not sure where to find it.

[MDS]

after clicking the start in the search box just type restore and it will bring it up. You can then check to see what the latest restore point was, and choose which one you want

The system restore though usually will not remove all traces of the installed program often leaving behind the directory where it was installed and some files.