Restore Points Mysteriously Deleted

[John Taylor]

Hello,

I'm using Windows XP SP2 on a Pentium 4 machine with 512 Meg of RAM, and
have just noticed that all my Restore Points have mysteriously
'disappeared'.

I keep an eye on the restore points quite regularly and up until a couple of
days ago they were being created daily. However, last night when I checked
System Restore there were no bold dates showing for January, I was unable to
click the back button on the calendar to check December 2006, and in the
right panel there was a message "There are currently no restore points
available.".

One interesting thing I noticed was that this morning, after starting the
computer, I left it idle for about one hour but a System Restore Point was
not created. I have since successfully created a manual Restore Point,
however.

After doing many searches of the Microsoft knowledgebase, and the internet
in general, I am at a loss to know what could have happened.

"Turn off System Restore" is unchecked.

"Disk space to use" is set at 12% (9157 MB), and my 75 GB hard drive (which
is not partitioned) still has 64 GB (86%) available.

"System Restore service" is running.

I'm not using any Norton/Symantec software, and I've scanned for viruses,
spyware, and adware, with negative results.

I would appreciate any help as to why this situation may have arisen, and
what can be done to correct it.

Regards,

John

 

[Gerry Cornell]

John

http://bertk.mvps.org/ but I am not sure whether the answers there.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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[Gerry Cornell]

John

Post your query here:
http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=54

Bert Kinney, who has specialised in System Restore, is the Moderator
of the System Restore forum on the site.

You will need to register and log in to post but that is not onerous,



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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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