Thanks Will, that fixed it .. SR now opens, says its monitoring my drive and
I could create a restore point by hand.
"Will Denny" wrote:
> Hi
>
> You'll have to try and reinstall System Restore:
>
> Open Windows Explorer and go to the windows\inf folder. Find the sr.inf
> file, right click on it and select Install.
>
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>
> Will Denny
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>
> "Jamie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:6327246A-E771-471F-ACC7-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I can't do that, when I click on the System restore tab, it fails before
> > anything else happens.
> >
> > I think once before I found a way to turn off system restore by editing
> > the
> > registry or issuing a CMD. then shut down/restart and then turn it bakc
> > on. I
> > think ...
> >
> > So, know of another way to turn it off outside the UI ?
> >
> > thanks ...
> >
> > "Will Denny" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> One or more of the System Restore files could have been corrupted - try
> >> turning SR off/on - but I'm afraid that you will lose any existing
> >> checkpoints:
> >>
> >> Right click My Computer, select Properties and then the System Restore
> >> tab.
> >> Enable 'Turn off System Restore on all drives' and reboot your PC. After
> >> that 1st reboot go back into SR and disable 'Turn off System Restore on
> >> all
> >> drives' and reboot your PC again. After that 2nd reboot you should have
> >> one
> >> new SR checkpoint.
> >>
> >> Failing that, you may have to reinstall System Restore.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >> Will Denny
> >> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
> >> Please reply to the News Groups
> >>
> >>
> >> "Jamie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >> news:BFDDEDA4-3A0C-44DA-B80B-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> >I moved my OS from a 20G HD to a 200G HD, and used the disk copy utility
> >> >that
> >> > came with the new HD to copy my old system over to the new drive. It
> >> > seemed
> >> > to go flawlessly.
> >> >
> >> > But the next time I happened to try to go into Control
> >> > Panel->System->System
> >> > Restore I get:
> >> >
> >> > An exception occurred while trying to run
> >> > C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,
> >> > Control_RunDLL "C:\windows\system32\sysdm.cpl", System"
> >> >
> >> > Now at one point I thought I had found some info on the net to reset
> >> > the
> >> > restore stuff and then it came up ok, but its back to doing this.
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas ? thanks ...
> >>
> >>
> >>
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